eaux

\o\

/\o\/ noun

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The verdict

“eaux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,863) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#1,863
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de eau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-eaux · eaux · French

eaux · rank #1,863 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,863
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH espèces

Nearest frequency peer: espèces (+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 « eaux »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « eaux » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

eaux vs Eu
25% similar
eaux vs élu
25% similar
eaux vs euh
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for eaux
PropertyValue
Headwordeaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,863
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « eaux »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.eauxse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « espèces » (#1,864), « dormir » (#1,861), « excellent » (#1,865). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « eaux » est au #1,863. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for eaux is neighbouring look-alikes ("Eu", "élu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \o\. Frequency #1,863 among 3,255 “E” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for eaux, with forms such as "aeux", "eauxx", and "eaxu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Eu", "élu", "euh", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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. The correct French form is eaux, spelled E-A-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de eau.
  2. 2
    Quantités ou étendues liquides naturelles.
  3. 3
    Zone maritime considérée comme un territoire appartenant à tel ou tel pays que baigne cette mer.
  4. 4
    Sillage, houaiche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how eaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les terres en général sont froides et compactes ; les eaux pluviales s’y infiltrent lentement et les rendent fort humides pendant l’hiver et le printemps ; on les désigne, dans le pays, sous le nom de gruette et de bournais.
  2. Ses bassins et ses seaux contiennent « les eaux » comme disent tout court les femmes de chambre ; les exsudations et les résidus de la peau, les graisses animales du savon y flottent ou s’y déposent.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aeux
  • eauxx
  • eaxu
  • euax

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eaux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aeux2eauxx1eaxu2euax2
Edit distance from "eaux"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eaux"?
"eaux" is spelled E-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \o\.
What does "eaux" mean?
As a noun, "eaux" means: Pluriel de eau.
What words are commonly confused with "eaux"?
"eaux" is commonly confused with "Eu", "élu", "euh". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "eaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "eaux" is \o\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "eaux" come from?
"eaux" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "eaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

HTTP#1,869cent#1,854joie#1,820dure#1,912

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list