ailé

\ɛ.le\

/\ɛ.le\/ adj

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The verdict

“ailé” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,126) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#38,126
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui possède des ailes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aile · ailé · French

ailé · rank #38,126 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,126
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH agar

Nearest frequency peer: agar (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ailé »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « ailé » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ailé vs al
50% similar
ailé vs air
50% similar
ailé vs ait
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ailé
PropertyValue
Headwordailé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛ.le\
Letters4
Frequency rank#38,126
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ailé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ailése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « agar » (#38,125), « alcoolisée » (#38,127), « affreuses » (#38,124). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « ailé » est au #38,126. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ailé is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "air", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɛ.le\. Frequency #38,126 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ailé, with forms such as "aillé", "aiél", and "ialé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "al", "air", "ait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ailé, spelled A-I-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui possède des ailes.
  2. 2
    Se dit d’un organe d’une plante qui porte des appendices ayant la forme d’ailes.
  3. 3
    Léger, rapide, comme s’il volait.
  4. 4
    Se dit d’un meuble auquel on a ajouté des ailes ordinairement absentes ou dont on souhaite préciser l’émail

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ailé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’ai vu des poissons ailés lors de mon voyage.
  2. Des fourmis ailées nous volent autour.

This word in other languages

winged(English)alado(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aillé
  • aiél
  • ialé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ailé - 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.

aillé1aiél2ialé2
Edit distance from "ailé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ailé"?
"ailé" is spelled A-I-L-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.le\.
What does "ailé" mean?
As an adjective, "ailé" means: Qui possède des ailes.
What words are commonly confused with "ailé"?
"ailé" is commonly confused with "al", "air", "ait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ailé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ailé" is \ɛ.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ailé" come from?
"ailé" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ailé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

agar#38,125éden#38,113yoon#38,108argo#38,147

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list