AQ
\a.ku\
The verdict
“AQ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,439) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province de L’Aquila.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aq · AQ · French
AQ · rank #45,439 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,439
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approfondit
Nearest frequency peer: approfondit (-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 « AQ »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- apportaient
apportaient
54,565 corpus weight
- approfondis
approfondis
54,564 corpus weight
- approfondit
approfondit
54,563 corpus weight
- AQ
AQ
54,562 corpus weight
- argents
argents
54,561 corpus weight
- argon
argon
54,560 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « AQ » 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 | AQ |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ku\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #45,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « AQ »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AQ is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \a.ku\. Frequency #45,439 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Province de L’Aquila.".
AQ has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
No borrowing history is documented 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 AQ, spelled A-Q.
Definition
- 1Province de L’Aquila.
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.