ago
\ə.ˈɡoʊ\
The verdict
“ago” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,663) as a postp. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,663
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Il y a (dans le passé).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ago · ago · French
ago · rank #32,663 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,663
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Afghane
Nearest frequency peer: Afghane (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ago »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Adriano
Adriano
67,341 corpus weight
- adéquats
adéquats
67,340 corpus weight
- Afghane
Afghane
67,339 corpus weight
- ago
ago
67,338 corpus weight
- ainé
ainé
67,337 corpus weight
- albinos
albinos
67,336 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ago » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ago |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Postp |
| IPA | \ə.ˈɡoʊ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ago »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ago is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is apostp pronounced \ə.ˈɡoʊ\. Frequency #32,663 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Il y a (dans le passé).".
No misspelling variants are generated for ago in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ago, spelled A-G-O.
Definition
- 1Il y a (dans le passé).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ago appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One week ago.
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, …
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).