aérien
\a.e.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“aérien” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est formé d’air ; qui a rapport à l’air ; qui est un effet de l’air ; qui se passe dans l’air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aerien · aérien · French
aérien · rank #6,054 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,054
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aviez
Nearest frequency peer: aviez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « aérien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assurée
assurée
93,950 corpus weight
- autrui
autrui
93,949 corpus weight
- aviez
aviez
93,948 corpus weight
- aérien
aérien
93,947 corpus weight
- bell
bell
93,946 corpus weight
- boules
boules
93,945 corpus weight
What this shows « aérien » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aérien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.e.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aérien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around aérien (IPA \a.e.ʁjɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,054 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for aérien, with forms such as "aerien", "aréien", and "aéiren". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "alien", "Ariel", "arden", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is aérien, spelled A-É-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est formé d’air ; qui a rapport à l’air ; qui est un effet de l’air ; qui se passe dans l’air.
- 2Qui évoque la légèreté, la finesse, la délicatesse ou la subtilité.
- 3Se dit d’un organe d’une plante qui se développe dans l’air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aérien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première victoire aérienne aurait eu lieu le 5 octobre 1914, le pilote Franz et son mitrailleur Louis Quenault abattant un aviatik à Jonchery-sur-Vesle (Marne).
Reste l’art et la manière d’en faire une merveille aérienne et équilibrée, ce que la pâtissier Michel Bartocetti, beau boss sucré d’une légende parisienne, le George V, ne rechigne pas à partager.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aerien
- aréien
- aéiren
- aérein
- aérienn
- aérine
- aérrien
- éarien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aérien - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).