asl
The verdict
“asl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,648) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,648
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Âge, sexe, ville, ou asv. Employé principalement dans les forums de messagerie instantanée sur Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asl · asl · French
asl · rank #39,648 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,648
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrangera
Nearest frequency peer: arrangera (-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 « asl »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- aquaculture
aquaculture
60,356 corpus weight
- archidiacre
archidiacre
60,355 corpus weight
- arrangera
arrangera
60,354 corpus weight
- asl
asl
60,353 corpus weight
- assermenté
assermenté
60,352 corpus weight
- attirail
attirail
60,351 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « asl » 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 | asl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « asl »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asl is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #39,648 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Âge, sexe, ville, ou asv. Employé principalement dans les forums de messagerie instantanée sur Internet.".
asl doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is asl, spelled A-S-L.
Definition
- 1Âge, sexe, ville, ou asv. Employé principalement dans les forums de messagerie instantanée sur Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how asl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What’s your asl?
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).