aiguillage
\e.ɡɥi.jaʒ\
The verdict
“aiguillage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,634. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,634
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de faire passer un convoi sur une autre voie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aiguillage · aiguillage · French
aiguillage · rank #41,634 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #41,634
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aidées
Nearest frequency peer: aidées (-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 « aiguillage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affinage
affinage
58,370 corpus weight
- agréées
agréées
58,369 corpus weight
- aidées
aidées
58,368 corpus weight
- aiguillage
aiguillage
58,367 corpus weight
- aises
aises
58,365 corpus weight
- aisselle
aisselle
58,364 corpus weight
What this shows « aiguillage » 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 | aiguillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡɥi.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aiguillage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around aiguillage (IPA \e.ɡɥi.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,634 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for aiguillage, with forms such as "agiuillage", "aigguillage", and "aigiullage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "aiguille", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 aiguillage, spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de faire passer un convoi sur une autre voie.
- 2Appareil de voie constitué de deux lames mobiles (l'aiguille) et d'une partie fixe permettant un changement de voie.
- 3Changement d’itinéraire physique ou mental.
- 4Changement d’itinéraire physique ou mental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aiguillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’intervention de l’homme est indispensable à deux stades : celui de l’aiguillage d’un train sur l’une de ses voies […]
[…] pour un type d’aiguillage automatique pour changements de voies et bifurcations de tramways ou chemins de fer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agiuillage
- aigguillage
- aigiullage
- aiguilage
- aiguilalge
- aiguillaeg
- aiguillagge
- aiguillgae
- aigulilage
- aiugillage
- iaguillage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aiguillage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aiguillage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).