aigle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,110
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aigle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau de proie rapace diurne à la vue perçante, au bec crochu à bords tranchants et aux pattes puissantes munies de serres pour saisir leurs proies. Il trompète ou glatit lorsqu’il pousse son cri. Pronounced \ɛɡl\. It ranks #9,110 in French word frequency. Often confused with ail and ale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aigle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aigle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡl\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,110 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for aigle, with forms such as "aigel", "aiggle", and "aiglle". 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, "ail", "ale", "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 aigle, spelled A-I-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau de proie rapace diurne à la vue perçante, au bec crochu à bords tranchants et aux pattes puissantes munies de serres pour saisir leurs proies. Il trompète ou glatit lorsqu’il pousse son cri.
- 2Homme de génie, qui a un esprit, un talent supérieur.
- 3Pupitre d’église représentant un aigle, le rapace, aux ailes étendues.
- 4Emblème des légions romaines, devenu symbole impérial sous Napoléon.
- 5Trou joué deux (2) coups sous le par.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aigel,aiggle,aiglle,ailge,iagle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aigle
Misspelling Variants of "aigle"
Frequency rank: #9,110 in French
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