aies

\ɛ\

/\ɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“aies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,592) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#9,592
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aies · aies · French

aies · rank #9,592 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,592
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH agressif

Nearest frequency peer: agressif (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « aies »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « aies » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

aies vs As
25% similar
aies vs ans
50% similar
aies vs air
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for aies
PropertyValue
Headwordaies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,592
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aies »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.aiesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « agressif » (#9,591), « Airbus » (#9,593), « agissent » (#9,590). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aies » est au #9,592. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for aies is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ans", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ɛ\. Frequency #9,592 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avoir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for aies, with forms such as "aeis", "aiess", and "iaes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ans", "air", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aies, spelled A-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how aies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je suis fière que tu aies un bon métier, Loulou. J'ai toujours voulu que tu aies une belle carrière. Pas comme moi, qui n'ai jamais appris quoi que ce soit.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aeis
  • aiess
  • iaes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aeis2aiess1iaes2
Edit distance from "aies"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aies"?
"aies" is spelled A-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ\.
What does "aies" mean?
As a verb, "aies" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe avoir.
What words are commonly confused with "aies"?
"aies" is commonly confused with "As", "ans", "air". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aies" is \ɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aies" come from?
"aies" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cire#9,617clic#9,618clin#9,619sean#9,558

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list