aiguillons
\e.ɡɥi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“aiguillons” is uncommon French (frequency #85,447 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,447
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aiguillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aiguillons · aiguillons · French
aiguillons · rank #85,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,447
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aideras
Nearest frequency peer: aideras (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aiguillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aguerrir
aguerrir
14,557 corpus weight
- aguicheuse
aguicheuse
14,556 corpus weight
- aideras
aideras
14,555 corpus weight
- aiguillons
aiguillons
14,554 corpus weight
- alambiquées
alambiquées
14,552 corpus weight
- aldéhydes
aldéhydes
14,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aiguillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aiguillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡɥi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aiguillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aiguillons is uncommon French at frequency #85,447 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ɡɥi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de aiguillon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aiguillons in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aiguillons, spelled A-I-G-U-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aiguillon.
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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