aiguilles
\e.ɡɥij\
The verdict
“aiguilles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,442
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aiguille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aiguilles · aiguilles · French
aiguilles · rank #10,442 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,442
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affrontement
Nearest frequency peer: affrontement (-2 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 « aiguilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- actionnaire
actionnaire
89,563 corpus weight
- adverse
adverse
89,562 corpus weight
- affrontement
affrontement
89,561 corpus weight
- aiguilles
aiguilles
89,559 corpus weight
- annuaire
annuaire
89,556 corpus weight
- annuellement
annuellement
89,555 corpus weight
What this shows « aiguilles » 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 | aiguilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡɥij\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aiguilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around aiguilles (IPA \e.ɡɥij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,442 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de aiguille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for aiguilles, with forms such as "agiuilles", "aigguilles", and "aigiulles". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "anguille", "aiguillon", "anguilles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is aiguilles, spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aiguille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aiguilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux rangées de colonnes, comme d’interminables aiguilles de glace parfaitement alignées, soutenaient un plafond que Yoran aurait pu confondre avec un ciel d’été tant sa teinte azuréenne semblait immatérielle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agiuilles
- aigguilles
- aigiulles
- aiguilels
- aiguiles
- aiguilless
- aiguillse
- aiguliles
- aiugilles
- iaguilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aiguilles - 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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