asm
\as\
The verdict
“asm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,876) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,876
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Asthmatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asm · asm · French
asm · rank #17,876 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,876
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arête
Nearest frequency peer: arête (-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 « asm »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- arroser
arroser
82,128 corpus weight
- artificiell…
artificiellement
82,127 corpus weight
- arête
arête
82,126 corpus weight
- asm
asm
82,125 corpus weight
- assassinats
assassinats
82,124 corpus weight
- assembler
assembler
82,123 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « asm » 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 | asm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \as\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « asm »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asm is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \as\. Frequency #17,876 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Asthmatique.".
asm doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is asm, spelled A-S-M.
Definition
- 1Asthmatique.
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).