ailettes
\ɛ.lɛt\
The verdict
“ailettes” is uncommon French (frequency #51,861 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,861
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ailette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ailettes · ailettes · French
ailettes · rank #51,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,861
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ailée
Nearest frequency peer: ailée (+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 « ailettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ahead
ahead
48,144 corpus weight
- ailettes
ailettes
48,140 corpus weight
- ailée
ailée
48,139 corpus weight
- ajournée
ajournée
48,138 corpus weight
- alambic
alambic
48,137 corpus weight
- alcaline
alcaline
48,136 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ailettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ailettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ailettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ailettes is uncommon French at frequency #51,861 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ailette.".
ailettes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ailettes, spelled A-I-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ailette.
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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