aigrettes
\ɛ.ɡʁɛt\
The verdict
“aigrettes” is uncommon French (frequency #59,055 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,055
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de aigret.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aigrettes · aigrettes · French
aigrettes · rank #59,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,055
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adoucissant
Nearest frequency peer: adoucissant (-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 « aigrettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Addams
Addams
40,950 corpus weight
- addictive
addictive
40,949 corpus weight
- Adolfo
Adolfo
40,948 corpus weight
- adoucissant
adoucissant
40,947 corpus weight
- aigrettes
aigrettes
40,946 corpus weight
- ajustant
ajustant
40,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aigrettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aigrettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ.ɡʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aigrettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aigrettes is uncommon French at frequency #59,055 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ.ɡʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de aigret.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aigrettes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 aigrettes, spelled A-I-G-R-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de aigret.
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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