az
\az\
The verdict
“az” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,772) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première lettre de l’alphabet glagolitique, Ⰰ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-az · az · French
az · rank #23,772 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,772
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autodétermina…
Nearest frequency peer: autodétermination (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “az”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- attelage
attelage
76,232 corpus weight
- attribuent
attribuent
76,231 corpus weight
- autodétermi…
autodétermination
76,230 corpus weight
- az
az
76,229 corpus weight
- Badoo
Badoo
76,228 corpus weight
- Bahreïn
Bahreïn
76,227 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “az” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | az |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \az\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #23,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “az” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for az is neighbouring look-alikes ("azy", "azur", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \az\. Frequency #23,772 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Première lettre de l’alphabet glagolitique, Ⰰ.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for az, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "azy", "azur", "Aziz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is az, spelled A-Z.
Definition
- 1Première lettre de l’alphabet glagolitique, Ⰰ.
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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- "az" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "azy". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #23,772 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.