Aix
\ɛks\
The verdict
“Aix” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,210) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,210
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom court de Aix-en-Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aix · Aix · French
Aix · rank #5,210 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,210
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ADN
Nearest frequency peer: ADN (-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 « Aix »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- étendue
étendue
94,794 corpus weight
- étonne
étonne
94,793 corpus weight
- ADN
ADN
94,792 corpus weight
- Aix
Aix
94,791 corpus weight
- ambassade
ambassade
94,790 corpus weight
- amies
amies
94,789 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Aix » 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 | Aix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Aix »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Aix is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛks\. Frequency #5,210 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for Aix 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Aix, spelled A-I-X.
Definition
- 1Nom court de Aix-en-Provence.
- 2Nom court de Aix-la-Chapelle.
- 3Nom court de Aix-les-Bains.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département de la Corrèze.
- 5Ancien nom officiel de la Commune française située dans le département du Nord d’Aix-lez-Orchies devenu officiellement Aix-en-Pévèle en novembre 2018.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Étrange ville que cette Aix, morte ou demi-morte dans un sommeil de momie, toute peuplée de vieux hôtels à fenêtres grillées, à solennelles façades, à grands escaliers faits pour des robes de président, à rampes de fer ouvragé, à salons énormes précédés d’antichambres où jadis un peuple de laquais se trouvait à l’aise.
— Et maintenant, dit Placide, nous allons bien dîner, prendre un café filtre sous les platanes d’Aix aux belles fontaines et dormir enfin notre soûl.
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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