ares
\aʁ\
The verdict
“ares” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,119) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,119
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de are.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ares · ares · French
ares · rank #33,119 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,119
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arctic
Nearest frequency peer: arctic (-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 « ares »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- AOP
AOP
66,885 corpus weight
- apparentés
apparentés
66,884 corpus weight
- arctic
arctic
66,883 corpus weight
- ares
ares
66,882 corpus weight
- argenterie
argenterie
66,881 corpus weight
- Ariana
Ariana
66,880 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ares » 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 | ares |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ares »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ares is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "Art", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \aʁ\. Frequency #33,119 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de are.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ares, with forms such as "aers", "aress", and "arse". 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, "As", "Art", "axe", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ares, spelled A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de are.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aers
- aress
- arse
- raes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ares - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).