aider
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#664
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aider is aFrenchverb. It means: Faciliter l’accomplissement d’une action. Pronounced \e.de\. It ranks #664 in French word frequency. Often confused with air and aïe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aider |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.de\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aider is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #664 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for aider, with forms such as "adier", "aidder", and "aiderr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "air", "aïe", "aimé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aider, spelled A-I-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faciliter l’accomplissement d’une action.
- 2Faciliter l’accomplissement d’une action accomplie par quelqu’un.
- 3(transitif direct) Secourir, améliorer la condition de quelqu’un.
- 4Peut aussi s’employer pour des choses.
- 5Utiliser, se servir de.
- 6Appuyer l'action d'un autre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adier,aidder,aiderr,aidre,aiedr,iader
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aider
Misspelling Variants of "aider"
Frequency rank: #664 in French
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Nearby French words
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