aedes
The verdict
“aedes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,663 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,663
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foyer, pièce où l’on fait du feu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aedes · aedes · French
aedes · rank #65,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,663
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adventices
Nearest frequency peer: adventices (-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 « aedes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- adda
adda
34,341 corpus weight
- adsorption
adsorption
34,340 corpus weight
- adventices
adventices
34,339 corpus weight
- aedes
aedes
34,338 corpus weight
- aer
aer
34,337 corpus weight
- affalé
affalé
34,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aedes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aedes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aedes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aedes is uncommon French at frequency #65,663 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
aedes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aedes, spelled A-E-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Foyer, pièce où l’on fait du feu.
- 2Chambre.
- 3Temple, sanctuaire (composé d’une unique pièce).
- 4Appartement, partie de la maison composée de plusieurs pièces, édifice, maison, demeure, palais.
- 5Ruche, cellules des abeilles.
- 6Maisonnée, habitants de la maison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aedes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
deorum aedes refectae (sunt)
domus interior gemitu miseroque tumultu miscetur, penitusque cavae plangoribus aedes femineis ululant
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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