ave
\a.ve\
The verdict
“ave” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,094) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,094
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de avé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ave · ave · French
ave · rank #15,094 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,094
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH australiens
Nearest frequency peer: australiens (-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 « ave »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- arrêtées
arrêtées
84,910 corpus weight
- atome
atome
84,909 corpus weight
- australiens
australiens
84,908 corpus weight
- ave
ave
84,907 corpus weight
- avérer
avérer
84,906 corpus weight
- baisses
baisses
84,905 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ave » 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 | ave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ve\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ave »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ave is neighbouring look-alikes ("az", "aw", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.ve\. Frequency #15,094 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de avé.".
ave has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "aw", "ax", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ave, spelled A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de avé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce malheureux, qui a été pendu par vous aujourd’hui, a désiré que je vinsse dire au pied du gibet cinq pater et cinq ave pour le salut de son âme.
Sur des âmes comme celles du vétérinaire, l’on était sûr de travailler avec un bénéfice apostolique, et pour ainsi dire sans effort. C’était autre chose que ces créatures infirmes qui venaient dire une fois par semaine avant l’heure de la soupe : « Mon père, j’ai trompé mon homme avec le Léon Corenpot », et qui s’en allaient tranquillement après avoir pri…
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).