aiguille des heures
\e.ɡɥij de.z‿œʁ\
The verdict
“aiguille des heures” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pièce mobile qui désigne l’heure courante sur le cadran d’une horloge mécanique.
| 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) |
Where “aiguille des heures” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aiguille des heures is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ɡɥij de.z‿œʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pièce mobile qui désigne l’heure courante sur le cadran d’une horloge mécanique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aiguille des heures in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: 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, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce mobile qui désigne l’heure courante sur le cadran d’une horloge mécanique.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E- -D-E-S- -H-E-U-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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