ailier

/\ɛ.lje\/ noun

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.

Key facts for ailier
PropertyValue
Headwordailier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ.lje\
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,299
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ailier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Au football, joueur qui joue devant les autres près de la touche, qui doit déborder la défense pour marquer ou faire marquer.
  3. 3
    Au rugby à XV, joueur qui fait partie de la ligne des trois-quarts, à une de ses extrémités.
  4. 4
    Au 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).
  5. 5
    Pilote qui se place à côté et légèrement en arrière de l'avion de tête d'une formation.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aiiler,aileir,ailierr,ailire,aillier,aliier,ialier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ailier

Misspelling Variants of "ailier"

aiiler6aileir6ailierr7ailire6aillier7aliier6ialier6
Misspelling Variants of "ailier"

Frequency rank: #12,299 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ailier"?
"ailier" is spelled A-I-L-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.lje\.
What does "ailier" mean?
As a noun, "ailier" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "ailier"?
"ailier" is commonly confused with "aller", "aimer", "aille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ailier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ailier" is \ɛ.lje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ailier" come from?
"ailier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.