aéroport
\a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\
The verdict
“aéroport” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,943
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aeroport · aéroport · French
aéroport · rank #1,943 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,943
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appartient
Nearest frequency peer: appartient (-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 « aéroport »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- échelle
échelle
98,061 corpus weight
- aimes
aimes
98,060 corpus weight
- appartient
appartient
98,059 corpus weight
- aéroport
aéroport
98,058 corpus weight
- canal
canal
98,057 corpus weight
- chier
chier
98,056 corpus weight
What this shows « aéroport » 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 | aéroport |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aéroport »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around aéroport (IPA \a.e.ʁo.pɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,943 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for aéroport, with forms such as "aeroport", "aréoport", and "aéorport". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Airport", "aéroports", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is aéroport, spelled A-É-R-O-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ensemble englobant l'aérogare, les pistes d'envol et d'atterrissage, ainsi que les installations et services nécessaires au trafic aérien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aéroport appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la vue d'Alger, de l’aéroport Houari Boumédiene, je me décontracte, le voyageur devant aussi, avec un lâcher de pets tonitruants.
Il est surtout celui qui a transmis à Killian la passion du pilotage en l’emmenant dès l’âge de 9 ans au club d’aéromodélisme de Bassillac (24) le long de la piste de l’aéroport de Périgueux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aeroport
- aréoport
- aéorport
- aérooprt
- aéroporrt
- aéroportt
- aéropotr
- aéropport
- aéroprot
- aérpoort
- aérroport
- éaroport
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aéroport - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aéroport", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).