axe
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,316
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
axe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de fer ou de bois qui passe par le centre d’un corps et qui sert à faire tourner ce corps sur lui-même. Pronounced \aks\. It ranks #3,316 in French word frequency. Often confused with az and aya.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | axe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for axe is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aks\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,316 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for axe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "aya", "aye", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is axe, spelled A-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de fer ou de bois qui passe par le centre d’un corps et qui sert à faire tourner ce corps sur lui-même.
- 2Ligne droite qui passe par le centre d’un corps et autour de laquelle ce corps tourne.
- 3Élément principal, direction générale d'un projet.
- 4Toute ligne que l’on suppose traverser le centre d’un objet ou le diviser en deux parties égales et semblables.
- 5Importante voie de communication (voir : axe de communication).
- 6Pédoncule allongé autour duquel sont attachées plusieurs fleurs.
- 7Voir axe magnétique.
- 8Droite qui sert à construire une symétrie (dans le plan) ou décrire une rotation (dans l’espace).
- 9Droite avec une orientation, une origine et une unité désignée souvent par une lettre de l'alphabet : X, Y ou Z.
- 10Partie du terrain située sur la ligne joignant les deux buts, par opposition aux ailes.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3,316 in French
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