aileron
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,629
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
aileron is aFrenchnoun. It means: Extrémité de l’aile d’un oiseau à laquelle tiennent les grandes plumes de l’aile. Pronounced \ɛl.ʁɔ̃\. Often confused with aimeront and ailerons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aileron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛl.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aileron is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛl.ʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,629 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for aileron, with forms such as "aielron", "aileorn", and "ailerno". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "aimeront", "ailerons", "aideront", 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 aileron, spelled A-I-L-E-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extrémité de l’aile d’un oiseau à laquelle tiennent les grandes plumes de l’aile.
- 2Extrémité de l’aile d’un avion permettant de contrôler la direction.
- 3Nageoires de quelques poissons.
- 4Tout ce qui rappelle la forme d’un aileron.
- 5Bras d’une personne.
- 6Pièce à la forme de console renversée qui sert à rétablir une harmonie entre deux étages de largeurs inégales et peut éventuellement servir de contrefort pour l’étage supérieur.
- 7Synonyme de alule.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aielron,aileorn,ailerno,aileronn,ailerron,ailleron,ailreon,alieron,ialeron
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Misspelling Variants of "aileron"
Frequency rank: #39,629 in French
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