ath
\at\
The verdict
“ath” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,830) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,830
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de la préposition a et de l'article défini eth.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ath · ath · French
ath · rank #31,830 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,830
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attelle
Nearest frequency peer: attelle (+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 « ath »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ASN
ASN
68,175 corpus weight
- asperges
asperges
68,174 corpus weight
- assaillant
assaillant
68,173 corpus weight
- ath
ath
68,171 corpus weight
- attelle
attelle
68,170 corpus weight
- avants
avants
68,168 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ath » 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 | ath |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \at\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ath »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ath is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "av", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \at\. Frequency #31,830 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Contraction de la préposition a et de l'article défini eth.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ath in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "av", "az", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ath, spelled A-T-H.
Definition
- 1Contraction de la préposition a et de l'article défini eth.
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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