aï
\a.i\
The verdict
“aï” is uncommon French (frequency #62,800 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,800
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paresseux tridactyle. Quadrupède d’Amérique du Sud, mammifère de la famille des édentés, du genre Bradypus, qui se déplace avec une extrême lenteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ai · aï · French
aï · rank #62,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,800
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH bailliages
Nearest frequency peer: bailliages (+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 « aï »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aveuglante
aveuglante
37,204 corpus weight
- Aymon
Aymon
37,203 corpus weight
- aï
aï
37,201 corpus weight
- bailliages
bailliages
37,200 corpus weight
- Bakayoko
Bakayoko
37,199 corpus weight
- balançoires
balançoires
37,198 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aï » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aï |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.i\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #62,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aï » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aï is uncommon French at frequency #62,800 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paresseux tridactyle. Quadrupède d’Amérique du Sud, mammifère de la famille des édentés, du genre Bradypus, qui se déplace avec une extrême lenteur.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aï in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aï, spelled A-Ï.
Definition
- 1Paresseux tridactyle. Quadrupède d’Amérique du Sud, mammifère de la famille des édentés, du genre Bradypus, qui se déplace avec une extrême lenteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aï appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’animal apparaissant dans le coin gauche représente l'image que se faisaient les Européens d’un aï (ou bradype aï).
Synonyms
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.