aim
\ɛ̃\
The verdict
“aim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,360) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,360
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crochet de l’hameçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aim · aim · French
aim · rank #35,360 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,360
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aiguillon
Nearest frequency peer: aiguillon (-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 « aim »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- aiguillon
aiguillon
64,642 corpus weight
- aim
aim
64,641 corpus weight
- Albuquerque
Albuquerque
64,640 corpus weight
- allende
allende
64,639 corpus weight
- allocs
allocs
64,638 corpus weight
- allouées
allouées
64,637 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aim » 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 | aim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aim »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aim is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛ̃\. Frequency #35,360 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Crochet de l’hameçon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aim in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is aim, spelled A-I-M.
Definition
- 1Crochet de l’hameçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si ce moyen ne réussit pas, on se sert de la faux : deux aims joints dos à dos et unis par un plomb coulé en forme de poisson.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aim", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).