aide-soignante
\ɛd.swa.ɲɑ̃t\
The verdict
“aide-soignante” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme chargée d’aider le personnel soignant dans un hôpital.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aide-soignante · aide-soignante · French
aide-soignante · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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-soignante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛd.swa.ɲɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aide-soignante is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛd.swa.ɲɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme chargée d’aider le personnel soignant dans un hôpital.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aide-soignante in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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-soignante, spelled A-I-D-E---S-O-I-G-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Femme chargée d’aider le personnel soignant dans un hôpital.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aide-soignante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certes, elle confond infirmière & aide-soignante, singulier & pluriel, mais diable, à plus de cent ans ! D’ailleurs pour être précis, la toilette fut d’abord assurée par Patricia, officiellement aide-ménagère diligentée par l’ADMR locale, mais qui assurait en réalité un office d'aide-soignante, du moins pour la toilette, autant que de ménage.
En tête du cortège, qui a parcouru les rues de Saint-Céré, un bourg du Lot situé non loin du village de Tauriac, où vivait la famille Vayrac, ses amies de l’école d’aides-soignantes de Brive arboraient un tee-shirt demandant « Justice pour Justine ».
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.