aiguilleur
\e.ɡɥi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“aiguilleur” is uncommon French (frequency #89,360 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,360
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Agent chargé, depuis le poste d’aiguillage, de la surveillance et de la manœuvre des signaux et des appareils de voie (aiguilles, taquets, verrous, etc.).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aiguilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡɥi.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aiguilleur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aiguilleur is uncommon French at frequency #89,360 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ɡɥi.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aiguilleur, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 aiguilleur, spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Agent chargé, depuis le poste d’aiguillage, de la surveillance et de la manœuvre des signaux et des appareils de voie (aiguilles, taquets, verrous, etc.).
- 2Personne chargée de réguler le contrôle aérien.
This word in other languages
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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Using “aiguilleur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.