aigre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,810
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aigre is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a une saveur acide et amère provoquant un sentiment désagréable. Pronounced \ɛɡʁ\. Often confused with air and are.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aigre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aigre is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,810 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 aigre, with forms such as "agire", "aiger", and "aiggre". 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", "are", "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 aigre, spelled A-I-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a une saveur acide et amère provoquant un sentiment désagréable.
- 2Se dit d’un propos désagréable, acerbe.
- 3Se dit également d’un caractère ou de la personne elle-même.
- 4Se dit aussi, d’autres sensations désagréables, perçantes.
- 5Désigne des couleurs qui ne sont pas liées par des passages qui les accordent.
- 6Métaux qui ne sont pas ductiles et malléables, qui se désagrègent lorsqu’on les déforme.
- 7Désigne des planches dures et qui se laissent difficilement tailler par les outils ; de même, les outils sont aigres quand ils sont trempés trop dur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agire,aiger,aiggre,aigrre,airge,iagre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aigre
Misspelling Variants of "aigre"
Frequency rank: #31,810 in French
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