aeon
\ˈae̯.oːn\
The verdict
“aeon” is uncommon French (frequency #86,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,382
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , Éon, entité abstraite et éternelle imaginée par les gnostiques. Valentin en distingue trente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aeon · aeon · French
aeon · rank #86,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,382
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adénome
Nearest frequency peer: adénome (-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 « aeon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acme
acme
13,624 corpus weight
- actuaires
actuaires
13,622 corpus weight
- adénome
adénome
13,620 corpus weight
- aeon
aeon
13,619 corpus weight
- affligent
affligent
13,615 corpus weight
- agricultric…
agricultrices
13,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aeon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aeon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈae̯.oːn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aeon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aeon is uncommon French at frequency #86,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈae̯.oːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: ", Éon, entité abstraite et éternelle imaginée par les gnostiques. Valentin en distingue trente.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aeon, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aeon, spelled A-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1, Éon, entité abstraite et éternelle imaginée par les gnostiques. Valentin en distingue trente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aeon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ecce enim secunda tetras, Sermo et Vita, Homo et Ecclesia, quod in Patris gloria fruticasset huic numero gestientes et ipsi tale quid Patri de suo offere, alios ebulliunt fetus — proinde coniugales per copulam utriusque naturae: hac et Sermo et Vita decuriam Æonum simul fundunt; illac Homo et Ecclesia duos amplius aequiperando parentibus, quia et ipso duo…
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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