ase
\az\
The verdict
“ase” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,779) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,779
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée vivace de la famille des Apiaceae, dont l’espèce la plus connue est l’ase fétide (Ferula assa-foetida).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ase · ase · French
ase · rank #43,779 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,779
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH artilleurs
Nearest frequency peer: artilleurs (-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 « ase »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- argentés
argentés
56,225 corpus weight
- arrivage
arrivage
56,224 corpus weight
- artilleurs
artilleurs
56,223 corpus weight
- ase
ase
56,222 corpus weight
- assidue
assidue
56,221 corpus weight
- assidus
assidus
56,220 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ase » 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 | ase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \az\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ase »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ase is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \az\. Frequency #43,779 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for ase in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "at", "av", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ase, spelled A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée vivace de la famille des Apiaceae, dont l’espèce la plus connue est l’ase fétide (Ferula assa-foetida).
- 2Résine tirée de cette plante.
- 3Nom générique d’une variété de dieux de la mythologie scandinave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs, il ne se crée plus de légendes au déclin de ce pratique et positif dix-neuvième siècle, ni en Bretagne, la contrée des farouches korrigans, ni en Écosse, la terre des brownies et des gnomes, ni en Norvège, la patrie des ases, des elfes, des sylphes et des valkyries, ni même en Transylvanie, où le cadre des Carpathes se prête si naturellement à…
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).