asi
\a.si\
The verdict
“asi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,870) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,870
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de thé fabriqué à partir des feuilles et des tiges d'une espèce de houx (l'apalachine, Ilex vomitoria) et que les Cherokees appelaient aussi "boisson noire" et qui servait de breuvage rituel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asi · asi · French
asi · rank #44,870 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,870
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrimage
Nearest frequency peer: arrimage (-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 « asi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- arnaqueurs
arnaqueurs
55,133 corpus weight
- arrimage
arrimage
55,132 corpus weight
- asi
asi
55,131 corpus weight
- assimilent
assimilent
55,130 corpus weight
- assumez
assumez
55,129 corpus weight
- Assyrie
Assyrie
55,128 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « asi » 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 | asi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.si\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « asi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asi is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.si\. Frequency #44,870 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Sorte de thé fabriqué à partir des feuilles et des tiges d'une espèce de houx (l'apalachine, Ilex vomitoria) et que les Cherokees appelaient aussi "boisson noire" et qui servait de breuvage rituel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for asi in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is asi, spelled A-S-I.
Definition
- 1Sorte de thé fabriqué à partir des feuilles et des tiges d'une espèce de houx (l'apalachine, Ilex vomitoria) et que les Cherokees appelaient aussi "boisson noire" et qui servait de breuvage rituel.
Synonyms
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).