aille

\aj\

/\aj\/ verb

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The verdict

“aille” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,432) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,432
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de aller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aille · aille · French

aille · rank #3,432 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,432
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alliés

Nearest frequency peer: alliés (+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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « aille »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « aille » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

aille vs all
60% similar
aille vs ale
60% similar
aille vs aimé
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for aille
PropertyValue
Headwordaille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\aj\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,432
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aille »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aillese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alliés » (#3,433), « équipement » (#3,430), « amoureuse » (#3,434). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aille » est au #3,432. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for aille is neighbouring look-alikes ("all", "ale", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \aj\. Frequency #3,432 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aille, with forms such as "aile", "ailel", and "alile". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "all", "ale", "aimé", 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. The correct French form is aille, spelled A-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de aller.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de aller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Non, répondit Cérizet, il est assez cuit par toi, sans que j’aille encore lui donner des coups de lardoire : il rendrait tout son jus.
  2. « Quand je vous avertissais, madame, qu'il fallait que je m’en aille… » s’écrie l’étranger. « Eh ! monsieur, dites au moins : Que je m’en allasse ! » reprend l’académicien.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aile
  • ailel
  • alile
  • ialle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aille - 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.

aile1ailel2alile2ialle2
Edit distance from "aille"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aille"?
"aille" is spelled A-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aj\.
What does "aille" mean?
As a verb, "aille" means: Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de aller.
What words are commonly confused with "aille"?
"aille" is commonly confused with "all", "ale", "aimé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aille" is \aj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aille" come from?
"aille" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bombe#3,440rends#3,420poète#3,418oncle#3,415

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list