agulhon
[aɣyˈʎu]
The verdict
“agulhon” is uncommon French (frequency #98,709 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,709
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aiguillon, petite aiguille, dard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agulhon · agulhon · French
agulhon · rank #98,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,709
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agonistes
Nearest frequency peer: agonistes (-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 « agulhon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aggraverait
aggraverait
1,294 corpus weight
- agonistes
agonistes
1,293 corpus weight
- agulhon
agulhon
1,292 corpus weight
- AIC
AIC
1,291 corpus weight
- aiguilleurs
aiguilleurs
1,290 corpus weight
- ajustables
ajustables
1,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agulhon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agulhon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɣyˈʎu] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agulhon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agulhon is uncommon French at frequency #98,709 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aɣyˈʎu]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aiguillon, petite aiguille, dard.".
agulhon has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 agulhon, spelled A-G-U-L-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Aiguillon, petite aiguille, dard.
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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