ass
\æs\
The verdict
“ass” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,298) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,298
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Âne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ass · ass · French
ass · rank #16,298 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,298
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aristocratie
Nearest frequency peer: aristocratie (-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 « ass »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- antérieurs
antérieurs
83,706 corpus weight
- apôtre
apôtre
83,705 corpus weight
- aristocratie
aristocratie
83,704 corpus weight
- ass
ass
83,703 corpus weight
- asthme
asthme
83,702 corpus weight
- astronaute
astronaute
83,701 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ass » 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 | ass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \æs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ass »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ass is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \æs\. Frequency #16,298 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ass in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ass, spelled A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Âne.
- 2Con.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We saw an ass in the zoo.
My brother is a total ass.
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).