aïeuls
\a.jœl\
The verdict
“aïeuls” is uncommon French (frequency #94,498 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,498
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aïeul : Les grands-pères paternel et maternel, ou encore le grand-père et la grand-mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aieuls · aïeuls · French
aïeuls · rank #94,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,498
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH AWACS
Nearest frequency peer: AWACS (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aïeuls »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aventurant
aventurant
5,506 corpus weight
- AWACS
AWACS
5,504 corpus weight
- aïeuls
aïeuls
5,503 corpus weight
- babos
babos
5,502 corpus weight
- backyard
backyard
5,501 corpus weight
- badigeon
badigeon
5,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aïeuls » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aïeuls |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.jœl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aïeuls » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aïeuls is uncommon French at frequency #94,498 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.jœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for aïeuls in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aïeuls, spelled A-Ï-E-U-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aïeul : Les grands-pères paternel et maternel, ou encore le grand-père et la grand-mère.
- 2Tous les ascendants soit paternels, soit maternels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aïeuls appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait marié les vieux, baptisé les jeunes, enterré les aïeuls, catéchisé des générations de moutards, […].
La généalogie des Rabutin que doit publier Bussy lui paraît d’avance [à Mme de Sévigné] un livre admirable ; elle est beaucoup moins occupée de ses aïeuls maternels
Synonyms
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.
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