aware
[ə.ˈwɛə(r)]
The verdict
“aware” is uncommon French (frequency #67,306 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,306
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au courant, conscient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aware · aware · French
aware · rank #67,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,306
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Avre
Nearest frequency peer: Avre (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aware »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avocates
avocates
32,698 corpus weight
- avoisinent
avoisinent
32,697 corpus weight
- Avre
Avre
32,696 corpus weight
- aware
aware
32,695 corpus weight
- Aymen
Aymen
32,694 corpus weight
- Azincourt
Azincourt
32,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aware » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aware |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ə.ˈwɛə(r)] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aware » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aware is uncommon French at frequency #67,306 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ə.ˈwɛə(r)]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Au courant, conscient.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aware in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aware, spelled A-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Au courant, conscient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aware appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Are you aware that she was looking your way the whole evening?
Are you aware of the implications if this theory turns out to be true?
Antonyms
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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