aguerrir
\a.ɡɛ.ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“aguerrir” is uncommon French (frequency #85,444 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,444
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accoutumer aux fatigues de la guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aguerrir · aguerrir · French
aguerrir · rank #85,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,444
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agrémentent
Nearest frequency peer: agrémentent (-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 « aguerrir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- AGP
AGP
14,559 corpus weight
- agrémentent
agrémentent
14,558 corpus weight
- aguerrir
aguerrir
14,557 corpus weight
- aguicheuse
aguicheuse
14,556 corpus weight
- aideras
aideras
14,555 corpus weight
- aiguillons
aiguillons
14,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aguerrir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguerrir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ɡɛ.ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aguerrir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aguerrir is uncommon French at frequency #85,444 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ɡɛ.ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for aguerrir in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aguerrir, spelled A-G-U-E-R-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Accoutumer aux fatigues de la guerre.
- 2Accoutumer une personne à quelque chose qui paraît pénible au début.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aguerrir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce général sut aguerrir promptement ses troupes.
Depuis ce siège, les troupes étaient tout à fait aguerries.
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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