aérobic
\a.e.ʁɔ.bik\
The verdict
“aérobic” is uncommon French (frequency #64,252 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,252
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aérobique, gymnastique qui oxygène les tissus par des mouvements rapides effectués en musique et qui améliore l’état de santé cardiovasculaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aerobic · aérobic · French
aérobic · rank #64,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,252
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Azzedine
Nearest frequency peer: Azzedine (-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 « aérobic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aventura
aventura
35,753 corpus weight
- Azzedine
Azzedine
35,750 corpus weight
- aérobic
aérobic
35,749 corpus weight
- baas
baas
35,748 corpus weight
- bafouille
bafouille
35,747 corpus weight
- bait
bait
35,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aérobic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aérobic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.e.ʁɔ.bik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aérobic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aérobic is uncommon French at frequency #64,252 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.e.ʁɔ.bik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aérobique, gymnastique qui oxygène les tissus par des mouvements rapides effectués en musique et qui améliore l’état de santé cardiovasculaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aérobic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aérobic, spelled A-É-R-O-B-I-C.
Definition
- 1Aérobique, gymnastique qui oxygène les tissus par des mouvements rapides effectués en musique et qui améliore l’état de santé cardiovasculaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aérobic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, quand les Français font du sport en dehors de leur domicile […] ils choisissent majoritairement de jouer au tennis […], ou bien ils participent à des séances de gymnastique, d’assouplissement, de musculation ou d’aérobic (9 % en 1985), ou bien encore ils nagent (8,6 % des interviewés joggent ou marathonent).
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); 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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