aïeux
\a.jø\
The verdict
“aïeux” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,331
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aïeul : tous ceux de qui l’on descend.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aieux · aïeux · French
aïeux · rank #27,331 · 5 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,331
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aéronefs
Nearest frequency peer: aéronefs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « aïeux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Austerlitz
Austerlitz
72,673 corpus weight
- autocollant
autocollant
72,672 corpus weight
- aéronefs
aéronefs
72,671 corpus weight
- aïeux
aïeux
72,670 corpus weight
- baisent
baisent
72,669 corpus weight
- barbus
barbus
72,668 corpus weight
What this shows « aïeux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aïeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.jø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aïeux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around aïeux (IPA \a.jø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,331 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for aïeux, with forms such as "aeïux", "aïeuxx", and "aïexu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "aux", "Aix", "Alex", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 aïeux, spelled A-Ï-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aïeul : tous ceux de qui l’on descend.
- 2Tous ceux qui ont vécu dans les siècles passés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aïeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines familles présentent des aïeux prestigieux dans le champ militaire : deux ont un arrière-grand-père maréchal de France ou général de la guerre de 1914-1918.
Le ciel, tout l’univers est plein de mes aïeux.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aeïux
- aïeuxx
- aïexu
- aïuex
- ïaeux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aïeux - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).