API
\a.pi\
The verdict
“API” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,115) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,115
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alphabet phonétique international.
Corpus desk
Index FR-api · API · French
API · rank #18,115 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,115
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anxieux
Nearest frequency peer: anxieux (-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 « API »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ancrage
ancrage
81,889 corpus weight
- Anderlecht
Anderlecht
81,888 corpus weight
- anxieux
anxieux
81,887 corpus weight
- API
API
81,886 corpus weight
- appuyés
appuyés
81,885 corpus weight
- ardent
ardent
81,884 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « API » 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 | API |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « API »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for API is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.pi\. Frequency #18,115 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Alphabet phonétique international.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for API, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is API, spelled A-P-I.
Definition
- 1Alphabet phonétique international.
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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