aya
\a.ja\
The verdict
“aya” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,065) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,065
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme de chambre indigène, dans l’Inde et autour de l’Océan Indien, qui s’occupe de la maison et des enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aya · aya · French
aya · rank #28,065 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,065
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autels
Nearest frequency peer: autels (-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 « aya »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- attestée
attestée
71,939 corpus weight
- auspices
auspices
71,938 corpus weight
- autels
autels
71,937 corpus weight
- aya
aya
71,936 corpus weight
- bagne
bagne
71,935 corpus weight
- barbelés
barbelés
71,934 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aya » 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 | aya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ja\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aya »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aya is neighbouring look-alikes ("az", "aye", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.ja\. Frequency #28,065 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Femme de chambre indigène, dans l’Inde et autour de l’Océan Indien, qui s’occupe de la maison et des enfants.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aya, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "aye", "azy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aya, spelled A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Femme de chambre indigène, dans l’Inde et autour de l’Océan Indien, qui s’occupe de la maison et des enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès mon arrivée à Marseille, je commençai une intrigue avec une aya.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).