aide-mémoire
\ɛd.me.mwaʁ\
The verdict
“aide-mémoire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout ce qui aide la mémoire, moyen mnémotechnique, rappel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aide-memoire · aide-mémoire · French
aide-mémoire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aide-mémoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛd.me.mwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aide-mémoire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛd.me.mwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aide-mémoire, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 aide-mémoire, spelled A-I-D-E---M-É-M-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Tout ce qui aide la mémoire, moyen mnémotechnique, rappel.
- 2Ouvrage consacré à un sujet particulier et contenant les renseignements essentiels (formules, listes, etc.) que la mémoire pourrait ne pas retenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aide-mémoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rime fut originairement un grossier artifice de mnémotechnie et le vers un aide-mémoire pour des gens qui ne savaient pas lire.
Il [le maître d'hôtel] disait au garçon qui nous avait servis, avec un geste répété et apaisant du revers de la main, comme s'il voulait calmer un cheval prêt à prendre le mors aux dents : « N'allez pas trop fort (pour l'addition), allez doucement, très doucement. » Puis, comme le garçon partait muni de cet aide-mémoire, Aimé, craignant que ses recommanda…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.