aléasvsAseanConfusable pair

Quick tell: aléas is a noun, Asean is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“aléas” is a noun and “Asean” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,060
“aléas” frequency rank
#48,344
“Asean” frequency rank
65404
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aléas Asean
Definition Pluriel de aléa. Association des nations du Sud-Est asiatique.

Letter map: aléas vs Asean

Shared letters muted; letters that set aléas and Asean apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. aléas and Asean follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
aléas
5 ch
Asean

Part-of-speech tell for aléas / Asean

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aléas is anoun and Aseananame. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65404, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aléas is recorded at frequency rank #17,060, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.le.a\. Asean is at rank #48,344, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 65404, this pair ranks #72,507 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aléas vs Asean

Shared letters: as. Private to "aléas": lé. Private to "Asean": en.

"aléas" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC  ·  "Asean" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Asean ← aesan · asaen · aseann · asena · assean · saean

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aléas" and "Asean" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aléas" is a noun and "Asean" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aléas" vs "Asean" - which ranks higher?
"aléas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,060 in our French list, against #48,344 for "Asean". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "aléas" and "Asean". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aléas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Asean" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #72,507 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aléas" and "Asean" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Asean vs asiat". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #72,507 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list