als
\al\
The verdict
“als” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,096) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,096
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom de la troisième personne du singulier utilisé pour parler de plusieurs personnes peu importe(nt) leur(s) genre(s).
Corpus desk
Index FR-als · als · French
als · rank #23,096 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,096
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alliez
Nearest frequency peer: alliez (-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 « als »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- agilité
agilité
76,908 corpus weight
- Aline
Aline
76,907 corpus weight
- alliez
alliez
76,906 corpus weight
- als
als
76,905 corpus weight
- amusait
amusait
76,904 corpus weight
- AOC
AOC
76,902 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « als » 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 | als |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \al\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « als »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for als is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \al\. Frequency #23,096 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Pronom de la troisième personne du singulier utilisé pour parler de plusieurs personnes peu importe(nt) leur(s) genre(s).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for als, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is als, spelled A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pronom de la troisième personne du singulier utilisé pour parler de plusieurs personnes peu importe(nt) leur(s) genre(s).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how als appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon émotion ne résiste pas à la vision de ce cortège où, lorsqu’als arrivent à ma hauteur, les hommes m’invitent à les rejoindre et les femmes fuient mon regard.
Et comment pouvaient-als* donner voix à leurs relations et leur vécu en français ?
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).