ailé
\ɛ.le\
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
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui possède des ailes.
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 | ailé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ.le\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ailé” sits in French frequency
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 424,905 “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
- 1Qui possède des ailes.
- 2Se dit d’un organe d’une plante qui porte des appendices ayant la forme d’ailes.
- 3Léger, rapide, comme s’il volait.
- 4Se dit d’un meuble auquel on a ajouté des ailes ordinairement absentes ou dont on souhaite préciser l’émail
This word in other languages
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.
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 “ailé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-I-L-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “al” - see the side-by-side comparison. ailé vs al
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Words at a similar French frequency
Data Source
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.