aqua
\ˈa.kwa\
The verdict
“aqua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,263) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,263
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aqueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aqua · aqua · French
aqua · rank #26,263 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,263
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appliquera
Nearest frequency peer: appliquera (-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 « aqua »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- appellerait
appellerait
73,741 corpus weight
- appendice
appendice
73,740 corpus weight
- appliquera
appliquera
73,739 corpus weight
- aqua
aqua
73,738 corpus weight
- ardente
ardente
73,737 corpus weight
- Attali
Attali
73,735 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aqua » 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 | aqua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈa.kwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aqua »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aqua is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "aux", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈa.kwa\. Frequency #26,263 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Aqueux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aqua, with forms such as "aqau", "aqqua", and "auqa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "aux", "aus", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aqua, spelled A-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Aqueux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aqau
- aqqua
- auqa
- qaua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aqua - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aqua", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).