ahi
\a.i\
The verdict
“ahi” is uncommon French (frequency #93,465 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,465
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri qui exprime la douleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ahi · ahi · French
ahi · rank #93,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,465
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agglutination
Nearest frequency peer: agglutination (-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 « ahi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- africanistes
africanistes
6,539 corpus weight
- agglutinati…
agglutination
6,537 corpus weight
- ahi
ahi
6,536 corpus weight
- Ahun
Ahun
6,535 corpus weight
- aiguisent
aiguisent
6,534 corpus weight
- akin
akin
6,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ahi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \a.i\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #93,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ahi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ahi is uncommon French at frequency #93,465 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \a.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ahi in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 ahi, spelled A-H-I.
Definition
- 1Cri qui exprime la douleur.
- 2Exclamation exprimant l’embarras ou l’empathie qu’éprouve une personne lorsqu’elle se projette dans une situation incommodante ou dangereuse qu’est en train de vivre quelqu’un ou quelque chose ou bien qu’elle-même ou une autre a failli vivre.
- 3Expression ivoirienne exprimant un état d’étonnement, de surprise, d’incompréhension. •"Ahii ? Qu’est ce que tu racontes ?"
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ahi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son cri, ahi ! ahi ! douloureuse prière, Dans le vaste palais jusqu’au fond retentit, Et la plaintive écho des voûtes répondit.
«Ahi ! Ahi ! Au feu ! »
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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