aux
\o\
The verdict
“aux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #58) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #58
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction obligatoire de la préposition à et de l'article défini les.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aux · aux · French
aux · rank #58 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #58
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH sa
Nearest frequency peer: sa (-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 « aux »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cette
cette
99,946 corpus weight
- faire
faire
99,945 corpus weight
- sa
sa
99,944 corpus weight
- aux
aux
99,943 corpus weight
- me
me
99,941 corpus weight
- ont
ont
99,940 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aux » 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 | aux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \o\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #58 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aux »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aux is neighbouring look-alikes ("av", "az", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \o\. Frequency #58 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Contraction obligatoire de la préposition à et de l'article défini les.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "av", "az", "aw", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aux, spelled A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Contraction obligatoire de la préposition à et de l'article défini les.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Garantier contemplait, à travers la baie vitrée, les mouettes qui se débattaient au-dessus de la mer ; il s’efforçait d’oublier que c’étaient des choses vivantes et de n’y voir que des signes géométriques vivants, blancs et gris, assez comparables aux mobiles de Calder.
This word in other languages
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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