aye
\ɛ\
The verdict
“aye” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,835) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,835
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aye · aye · French
aye · rank #31,835 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,835
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH axiome
Nearest frequency peer: axiome (-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 « aye »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- avants
avants
68,168 corpus weight
- axiome
axiome
68,167 corpus weight
- aye
aye
68,166 corpus weight
- aérer
aérer
68,165 corpus weight
- banales
banales
68,164 corpus weight
- banana
banana
68,163 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aye » 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 | aye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aye »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aye is neighbouring look-alikes ("az", "azy", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ɛ\. Frequency #31,835 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for aye in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "azy", "ayez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aye, spelled A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avoir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent du verbe avoir.
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).