ait
\ɛ\
The verdict
“ait” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #538) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #538
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe auxiliaire avoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ait · ait · French
ait · rank #538 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #538
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH voiture
Nearest frequency peer: voiture (-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 « ait »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- terme
terme
99,466 corpus weight
- viens
viens
99,465 corpus weight
- voiture
voiture
99,464 corpus weight
- ait
ait
99,463 corpus weight
- avril
avril
99,462 corpus weight
- droits
droits
99,461 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ait » 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 | ait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ait »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ait is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ɛ\. Frequency #538 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe auxiliaire avoir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ait, spelled A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe auxiliaire avoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’employé, toujours perplexe, après n’avoir pu décider dans son esprit à qui il remettrait la plume en premier lieu, allait, pour ne froisser personne, la retremper dans l’encrier, afin qu’il n’y ait point de préférence à manifester, lorsqu’il s’arrêta net, gardant le porte-plume entre ses doigts.
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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