aînesse
\ɛ.nɛs\
The verdict
“aînesse” is uncommon French (frequency #84,542 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,542
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priorité d’âge entre frères et sœurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ainesse · aînesse · French
aînesse · rank #84,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,542
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH babtous
Nearest frequency peer: babtous (+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 « aînesse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avarié
avarié
15,463 corpus weight
- Avesnois
Avesnois
15,461 corpus weight
- aînesse
aînesse
15,459 corpus weight
- babtous
babtous
15,458 corpus weight
- baccalauréa…
baccalauréats
15,457 corpus weight
- baclofène
baclofène
15,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aînesse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aînesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aînesse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aînesse is uncommon French at frequency #84,542 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.nɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Priorité d’âge entre frères et sœurs.".
Zero misspellings are on record for aînesse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aînesse, spelled A-Î-N-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Priorité d’âge entre frères et sœurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aînesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ésaü vendit son droit d’aînesse à Jacob pour un plat de lentilles.
Divers passages de la Genèse, premier livre du Pentateuque, constatent l’existence du droit d’aînesse chez les Hébreux à l’époque des Patriarches.
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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