aînée
\e.ne\
The verdict
“aînée” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,515. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,515
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant la plus âgée d’une famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ainee · aînée · French
aînée · rank #13,515 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,515
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Auxerre
Nearest frequency peer: Auxerre (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « aînée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arrêtait
arrêtait
86,489 corpus weight
- aspire
aspire
86,488 corpus weight
- Auxerre
Auxerre
86,487 corpus weight
- aînée
aînée
86,486 corpus weight
- banale
banale
86,485 corpus weight
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh
86,484 corpus weight
What this shows « aînée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aînée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aînée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around aînée (IPA \e.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,515 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enfant la plus âgée d’une famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for aînée, with forms such as "ainee", "anîée", and "aîneé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "âne", "anne", "ange", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 aînée, spelled A-Î-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Enfant la plus âgée d’une famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aînée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon arrière-grand-mère juive et mon arrière-grand-père palestinien ont eu neuf enfants. Ma grand-mère était l’aînée. L’histoire s'est vraiment compliquée pendant la grande révolte arabe.
Vous souvient-il d’un jour, le premier de l’année, Où le divin sourire illumina les yeux, Où mon âme en votre âme adora son aînée, Où votre cœur m’aime, doux et silencieux..? Vous souvient-il un jour, le premier de l’année.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ainee
- anîée
- aîneé
- aînnée
- aîéne
- îanée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aînée - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aînée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).