aï
French, noun
aï is spelled A-Ï (2 letters) and appears 2,884 times per million words in written French, the 46th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aï is a French masculine noun meaning “ai (sloth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its diaeresis, ai is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of avoir”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Paresseux tridactyle. Quadrupède d’Amérique du Sud, mammifère de la famille des édentés, du genre Bradypus…”.
What does aï mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineai (sloth)
suffix
- 1
forms the first-person singular past historic indicative form of an -er verb
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of avoir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Paresseux tridactyle. Quadrupède d’Amérique du Sud, mammifère de la famille des édentés, du genre Bradypus, qui se déplace avec une extrême lenteur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aï
- aïs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to aï
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aï in French?
aï appears 2,884 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).