ail

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ail is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aj\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,426 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de plante à bulbe de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou des amaryllidacées (classification phylogénétique) à bulbe composé de plusieurs petites gousses réunies sous une e...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ail in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 ail, spelled A-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.