aigres
\ɛɡʁ\
The verdict
“aigres” is uncommon French (frequency #88,294 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,294
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de l'adjectif aigre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aigres · aigres · French
aigres · rank #88,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,294
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aguas
Nearest frequency peer: aguas (-2 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 « aigres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agglutinés
agglutinés
11,711 corpus weight
- aguas
aguas
11,709 corpus weight
- aigres
aigres
11,707 corpus weight
- ajoncs
ajoncs
11,705 corpus weight
- alignait
alignait
11,702 corpus weight
- aliyah
aliyah
11,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aigres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aigres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aigres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aigres is uncommon French at frequency #88,294 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛɡʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de l'adjectif aigre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aigres in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aigres, spelled A-I-G-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de l'adjectif aigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aigres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et Perse de rechercher alors à dépasser cette opposition, et pour cela à viriliser, à volontariser la femme : ce même type de filles, « plus étroites de hanches et de front plus aiguës », il l’exaltera encore dans Amers (A., 90): sorte de filles-garçons, à demi amazones, « les plus aigres sous la plume de fer » (E., 213).
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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