ah

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ah is 2 letters long, classified as anonomatopoeia, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aː\. Corpus data places it at rank #396 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cri d’horreur ou d’effroi, en particulier lors d’une chute.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ah in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ah, spelled A-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.