aiguillat
French, noun
aiguillat is spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-A-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aiguillat is a French masculine noun meaning “dogfish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, aiguillât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of aiguiller”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de petit requin à 5 paires de fentes branchiales qui a une aiguille cornée avec glande à venin en…”.
What does aiguillat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedogfish
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of aiguiller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aiguillat
- aiguillats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aiguillat in French?
aiguillat appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).