aède
\a.ɛd\
The verdict
“aède” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poète de la Grèce antique qui chantait ses œuvres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aede · aède · French
aède · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aède |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɛd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aède » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aède is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for aède in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aède, spelled A-È-D-E.
Definition
- 1Poète de la Grèce antique qui chantait ses œuvres.
- 2Poète.
- 3Moustique du genre Aedes ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aède appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au chant IX de l’Odyssée, Ulysse, fondant en larmes, avoue son nom. L’aède repose sa cithare et se tait. Désormais Ulysse prend la parole, parle à la première personne et raconte la suite de ses aventures […]
Homère envisage donc ici une situation où le discours de l’aède était soumis à un « contrôle » social.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.