aioli
/aɪˈəʊlɪ/
"aioli" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aioli” is uncommon English (frequency #65,677 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,677
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of sauce made from garlic and olive oil, often with egg and lemon juice and similar to mayonnaise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aioli · aioli · English
aioli · rank #65,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,677
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH airhead
Nearest frequency peer: airhead (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “aioli”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya
34,327 corpus weight
- aioli
aioli
34,324 corpus weight
- airhead
airhead
34,323 corpus weight
- airless
airless
34,322 corpus weight
- airworthine…
airworthiness
34,321 corpus weight
- Akiko
Akiko
34,320 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aioli” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aioli |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɪˈəʊlɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aioli” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aioli is uncommon English at frequency #65,677 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /aɪˈəʊlɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of sauce made from garlic and olive oil, often with egg and lemon juice and similar to mayonnaise.".
aioli doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French aïoli, from Occitan alhòli, from alh (“garlic”) + òli (“oil”). The correct English form is aioli, spelled A-I-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1A type of sauce made from garlic and olive oil, often with egg and lemon juice and similar to mayonnaise.
Etymology
Borrowed from French aïoli, from Occitan alhòli, from alh (“garlic”) + òli (“oil”).
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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