Asean

name

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The verdict

“Asean” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,344
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Association des nations du Sud-Est asiatique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-asean · Asean · French

Asean · rank #48,344 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,344
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH assemblent

Nearest frequency peer: assemblent (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Asean »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Asean » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Asean vs ASN
20% similar
Asean vs Asia
60% similar
Asean vs aven
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Asean
PropertyValue
HeadwordAsean
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#48,344
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Asean »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Aseanse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « assemblent » (#48,345), « Armageddon » (#48,342), « assertions » (#48,346). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Asean » est au #48,344. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Asean, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,344 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Association des nations du Sud-Est asiatique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Asean, with forms such as "aesan", "asaen", and "aseann". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ASN", "Asia", "aven", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Asean, spelled A-S-E-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Association des nations du Sud-Est asiatique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Asean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’association des nations de l’Asie du Sud-Est (Asean) a accueilli, samedi, un nouveau membre surprise venu de l’autre côté du monde, la Colombie, du moins pour un instant, grâce à un lapsus verbal de Joe Biden.
  2. La Chine a été très vite considérée comme une destination concurrente de l’Asean.

Synonyms

ANASE

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aesan
  • asaen
  • aseann
  • asena
  • assean
  • saean

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Asean - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aesan2asaen2aseann1asena2assean1saean2
Edit distance from "Asean"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Asean"?
"Asean" is spelled A-S-E-A-N.
What does "Asean" mean?
As a proper noun, "Asean" means: Association des nations du Sud-Est asiatique.
What words are commonly confused with "Asean"?
"Asean" is commonly confused with "ASN", "Asia", "aven". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Asean" come from?
"Asean" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Asean", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Anssi#48,333begin#48,361bihan#48,363Amiel#48,323

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

baissa6 variantscourra6 variantsvaria6 variantsdust6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list