ash
\æʃ\
The verdict
“ash” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,049) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,049
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ash · ash · French
ash · rank #20,049 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,049
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascenseurs
Nearest frequency peer: ascenseurs (-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 « ash »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Areva
Areva
79,955 corpus weight
- arènes
arènes
79,954 corpus weight
- ascenseurs
ascenseurs
79,953 corpus weight
- ash
ash
79,952 corpus weight
- aspirant
aspirant
79,951 corpus weight
- assignation
assignation
79,950 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ash » 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 | ash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \æʃ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ash »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ash is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \æʃ\. Frequency #20,049 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Cendre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ash, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ash, spelled A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Cendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The house burnt down to ashes.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).