ailier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,299
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ailier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Au basket-ball, joueur qui évolue près de la ligne de touche devant, compromis entre la taille et la puissance d"un intérieur ou d'un pivot, et l"agilité et la dextérité d"un meneur ou d"un arrière. Pronounced \ɛ.lje\. Often confused with aller and aimer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ailier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.lje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ailier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.lje\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,299 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ailier, with forms such as "aiiler", "aileir", and "ailierr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aller", "aimer", "aille", 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 ailier, spelled A-I-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Au basket-ball, joueur qui évolue près de la ligne de touche devant, compromis entre la taille et la puissance d"un intérieur ou d'un pivot, et l"agilité et la dextérité d"un meneur ou d"un arrière.
- 2Au football, joueur qui joue devant les autres près de la touche, qui doit déborder la défense pour marquer ou faire marquer.
- 3Au rugby à XV, joueur qui fait partie de la ligne des trois-quarts, à une de ses extrémités.
- 4Au hockey sur glace, joueur qui joue en attaque et est positionné sur l'un des côtés au moment d'une mise en jeu (qui se fait entre les deux joueurs de centre).
- 5Pilote qui se place à côté et légèrement en arrière de l'avion de tête d'une formation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aiiler,aileir,ailierr,ailire,aillier,aliier,ialier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ailier"
Frequency rank: #12,299 in French
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