IPA
\i.pe.a\
The verdict
“IPA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,610) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,610
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indice de pollution atmosphérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ipa · IPA · French
IPA · rank #48,610 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,610
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH invoquées
Nearest frequency peer: invoquées (-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 « IPA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- intifada
intifada
51,394 corpus weight
- intriguant
intriguant
51,393 corpus weight
- invoquées
invoquées
51,392 corpus weight
- IPA
IPA
51,391 corpus weight
- IRD
IRD
51,390 corpus weight
- irritabilité
irritabilité
51,389 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « IPA » 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 | IPA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pe.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « IPA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IPA is neighbouring look-alikes ("it", "ix", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \i.pe.a\. Frequency #48,610 among 3,561 “I” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
IPA has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "it", "ix", "ir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is IPA, spelled I-P-A.
Definition
- 1Indice de pollution atmosphérique.
- 2Indice de précipitation antérieure ou indice de précipitation antécédente.
- 3Indice des prix d’achat.
- 4Informaticien professionnel agréé.
- 5Ingrédient pharmaceutique actif.
- 6Institut pastoral de l’AMECEA.
- 7Intercepteur piloté amélioré.
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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