ias
\ja\
The verdict
“ias” is uncommon French (frequency #57,319 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,319
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ias · ias · French
ias · rank #57,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,319
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH héliport
Nearest frequency peer: héliport (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- houari
houari
42,686 corpus weight
- humaniser
humaniser
42,685 corpus weight
- huot
huot
42,684 corpus weight
- héliport
héliport
42,683 corpus weight
- ias
ias
42,682 corpus weight
- imitée
imitée
42,678 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ias is uncommon French at frequency #57,319 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ia.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ias, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ias, spelled I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ia.
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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