ara
\a.ʁa\
The verdict
“ara” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,225) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,225
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom normalisé donné à six genres de grands oiseaux de la famille des psittacidés (e.g. "vrais" perroquets, amazones, etc.), à longue queue, au plumage très coloré et aux patrons complexes, dont l’i...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ara · ara · French
ara · rank #29,225 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,225
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appréciera
Nearest frequency peer: appréciera (-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 « ara »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- apprivoiser
apprivoiser
70,778 corpus weight
- appréciera
appréciera
70,777 corpus weight
- ara
ara
70,776 corpus weight
- argumente
argumente
70,775 corpus weight
- arrondir
arrondir
70,774 corpus weight
- arrêtaient
arrêtaient
70,773 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ara » 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 | ara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ara »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ara is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.ʁa\. Frequency #29,225 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Nom normalisé donné à six genres de grands oiseaux de la famille des psittacidés (e.g. "vrais" perroquets, amazones, etc.), à longue queue, au plumage très coloré et aux patrons complexes, dont l’i...".
ara doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ara, spelled A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Nom normalisé donné à six genres de grands oiseaux de la famille des psittacidés (e.g. "vrais" perroquets, amazones, etc.), à longue queue, au plumage très coloré et aux patrons complexes, dont l’intelligence et les aptitudes vocales sont supérieures à celles de la plupart des autres membres de l’ordre des psittaciformes, et qui fréquentent les forêts humides de l'écozone néotropicale, et dont plusieurs espèces sont présentement menacées de disparition (genres principaux: Ara, Anodorhynchus, Propyrrhura, etc.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Aras, les Calopsittes, les Perruches Alexandre, les Bourkes, les Columbiformes abritent parfois des quantités énormes de ces parasites.
Les aras ou les cacatoès coûtent entre 1.500 € et 2.000 € pièce quand un gris du Gabon, autrement appelé perroquet Jaco, se vend à hauteur de 800 à 1.000 €.
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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