aiguillat
\ɛ.ɡɥi.ja\
The verdict
“aiguillat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petit requin à 5 paires de fentes branchiales qui a une aiguille cornée avec glande à venin en avant des 2 nageoires dorsales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aiguillat · aiguillat · French
aiguillat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aiguillat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ɡɥi.ja\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aiguillat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.ɡɥi.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de petit requin à 5 paires de fentes branchiales qui a une aiguille cornée avec glande à venin en avant des 2 nageoires dorsales.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aiguillat in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 aiguillat, spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-A-T.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit requin à 5 paires de fentes branchiales qui a une aiguille cornée avec glande à venin en avant des 2 nageoires dorsales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aiguillat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La peau de l’aiguillat sert aux tourneurs pour polir leurs ouvrages.
Quant à Aristote, au cinquième livre des Parties des animaux, il dit que l'aiguillat et le notidane sont aussi des squales.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.