aiguille des heures
\e.ɡɥij de.z‿œʁ\
The verdict
“aiguille des heures” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce mobile qui désigne l’heure courante sur le cadran d’une horloge mécanique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aiguille-des-heures · aiguille des heures · French
aiguille des heures · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 | aiguille des heures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡɥij de.z‿œʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
aiguille des heures is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ɡɥij de.z‿œʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce mobile qui désigne l’heure courante sur le cadran d’une horloge mécanique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aiguille des heures, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aiguille des heures, spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E- -D-E-S- -H-E-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pièce mobile qui désigne l’heure courante sur le cadran d’une horloge mécanique.
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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.