AED
\a.ø.de\
The verdict
“AED” is uncommon French (frequency #60,518 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,518
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assistant d’éducation, assistante d’éducation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aed · AED · French
AED · rank #60,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,518
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adroitement
Nearest frequency peer: adroitement (-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 « AED »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adoucie
adoucie
39,486 corpus weight
- adroitement
adroitement
39,484 corpus weight
- AED
AED
39,483 corpus weight
- affinée
affinée
39,482 corpus weight
- affirmera
affirmera
39,481 corpus weight
- affleuremen…
affleurements
39,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « AED » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AED |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ø.de\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #60,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « AED » en français
Rare enough to double-check
AED is uncommon French at frequency #60,518 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ø.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Assistant d’éducation, assistante d’éducation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for AED, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is AED, spelled A-E-D.
Definition
- 1Assistant d’éducation, assistante d’éducation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how AED appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’assistant d’éducation est un agent public non titulaire, recruté soit en tant qu’AED (assistant d’éducation), soit en tant qu’assistant pédagogique (AP).
La ministre de l’Éducation nationale, Nicole Belloubet, a annoncé mardi qu’elle souhaitait « tenir compte de la spécificité de l’éducation en Seine-Saint-Denis », rappelant qu’une prime de fidélisation de 12 000 € est octroyée aux profs qui restent plus de cinq ans dans le département, et que cette prime venait d’être étendue aux assistants d’éducation (A…
Synonyms
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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