are
\aʁ\
The verdict
“are” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,166) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,166
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de surface de terrains, égale à 100 mètres carrés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-are · are · French
are · rank #6,166 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,166
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approcher
Nearest frequency peer: approcher (-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 « are »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- amusant
amusant
93,838 corpus weight
- anneau
anneau
93,837 corpus weight
- approcher
approcher
93,836 corpus weight
- are
are
93,835 corpus weight
- arrivant
arrivant
93,834 corpus weight
- calculs
calculs
93,833 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « are » 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 | are |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « are »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for are is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \aʁ\. Frequency #6,166 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de surface de terrains, égale à 100 mètres carrés.".
Zero misspellings are on record for are in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 are, spelled A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de surface de terrains, égale à 100 mètres carrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how are appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soit 523 jours de terre, appartenant à la mainmorte, ou 1 jour 8 ommées 2, par parcelles ou en mesures métriques 36 ares 50 par parcelles (le jour valant 20 ares 44 et l’ommée 2 ares 0,4.)
Les mesures agraires de Quarré, avant la Révolution (elles persistent aujourd'hui), n'avaient pas de base fixe. Un journal de champ, une « soiture » de pré oscillaient entre vingt-deux et trente-cinq ares de nos mesures métriques.
Synonyms
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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