Ajax
\a.ʒaks\
The verdict
“Ajax” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,384. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,384
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de deux héros de la guerre de Troie :
Corpus desk
Index FR-ajax · Ajax · French
Ajax · rank #18,384 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,384
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ajoutées
Nearest frequency peer: ajoutées (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ajax »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adjudant
adjudant
81,620 corpus weight
- Ajax
Ajax
81,617 corpus weight
- ajoutées
ajoutées
81,616 corpus weight
- ajustements
ajustements
81,615 corpus weight
- allergie
allergie
81,613 corpus weight
- allergies
allergies
81,612 corpus weight
What this shows « Ajax » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Ajax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒaks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ajax »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Ajax (IPA \a.ʒaks\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,384 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ajax, with forms such as "aajx", "ajaxx", and "ajjax". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ax", "aux", "aka", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ajax, spelled A-J-A-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de deux héros de la guerre de Troie :
- 2Nom de deux héros de la guerre de Troie :
- 3Nom de deux héros de la guerre de Troie :
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aajx
- ajaxx
- ajjax
- ajxa
- jaax
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ajax - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).