aisling
/ˈæʃlɪŋ/
"aisling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aisling” is uncommon English (frequency #80,163 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,163
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predict...
Corpus desk
Index EN-aisling · aisling · English
aisling · rank #80,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ahu
Nearest frequency peer: ahu (-2 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 “aisling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- agonize
agonize
19,843 corpus weight
- ahu
ahu
19,840 corpus weight
- aisling
aisling
19,838 corpus weight
- aji
aji
19,836 corpus weight
- akamai
akamai
19,835 corpus weight
- Akhil
Akhil
19,834 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aisling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aisling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæʃlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aisling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aisling is uncommon English at frequency #80,163 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæʃlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predict...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aisling, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish aisling. The correct English form is aisling, spelled A-I-S-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.
Etymology
From Irish aisling.
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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