Asia
\a.zja\
The verdict
“Asia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,854) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,854
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des océanides, dans la mythologie grecque, épouse de Japet selon le pseudo-Apollodore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asia · Asia · French
Asia · rank #21,854 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,854
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asphalte
Nearest frequency peer: asphalte (+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 « Asia »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- approximati…
approximation
78,150 corpus weight
- argenté
argenté
78,149 corpus weight
- Asia
Asia
78,147 corpus weight
- asphalte
asphalte
78,146 corpus weight
- Aston
Aston
78,145 corpus weight
- atroces
atroces
78,144 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Asia » 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 | Asia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.zja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Asia »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Asia is neighbouring look-alikes ("ass", "asm", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \a.zja\. Frequency #21,854 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Asia, with forms such as "aisa", "asai", and "assia". 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, "ass", "asm", "ava", 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Asia, spelled A-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1Une des océanides, dans la mythologie grecque, épouse de Japet selon le pseudo-Apollodore.
- 2Une des Néréides, dans la mythologie grecque, d’après Hygin.
- 3Astéroïde découvert par Norman Robert Pogson, en 1861, depuis l'Observatoire de Madras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Asia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Téthys enfanta aussi la troupe sacrée de ces nymphes qui, avec le roi Apollon et les Fleuves, élèvent sur la terre l’enfance des héros ; c’est Jupiter lui-même qui les chargea de cet emploi : Pitho, Admète, Ianthé, Électre, Doris, Prymno, Uranie semblable aux dieux, Hippo, Clymène, Rhodie, Callirhoé, Zeuxo, Clytie, Idye, Pasithoé, Plexaure, Galaxaure, l’a…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aisa
- asai
- assia
- saia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Asia - 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).