aérobie

\a.e.ʁɔ.bi\

/\a.e.ʁɔ.bi\/ adj

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The verdict

“aérobie” is uncommon French (frequency #63,540 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,540
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a besoin d’air pour vivre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aerobie · aérobie · French

aérobie · rank #63,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,540
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH avérera

Nearest frequency peer: avérera (-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 « aérobie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aérobie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aérobie
PropertyValue
Headwordaérobie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.e.ʁɔ.bi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#63,540
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aérobie » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aérobietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « avérera » (#63,539), « aéronavale » (#63,541), « avisera » (#63,538). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aérobie » est au #63,540. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aérobie is uncommon French at frequency #63,540 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.e.ʁɔ.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aérobie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aérobie, spelled A-É-R-O-B-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a besoin d’air pour vivre.
  2. 2
    Relatif à une activité biologique qui demande de l'oxygène.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aérobie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Microbe aérobie.
  2. Fermentation aérobie.

Antonyms

anaérobie

This word in other languages

aerobic(English)aerobio(Español)aerob(Deutsch)aeróbio(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aérobie"?
"aérobie" is spelled A-É-R-O-B-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.e.ʁɔ.bi\.
What does "aérobie" mean?
As an adjective, "aérobie" means: Qui a besoin d’air pour vivre.
How do you pronounce "aérobie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aérobie" is \a.e.ʁɔ.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aérobie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

avérera#63,539avisera#63,538avenger#63,537attires#63,534

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list