aircraft
\ɛə.kɹɑː̩ft\
The verdict
“aircraft” is uncommon French (frequency #53,747 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,747
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aéronef.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aircraft · aircraft · French
aircraft · rank #53,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,747
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aimions
Nearest frequency peer: aimions (-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 « aircraft »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agréger
agréger
46,258 corpus weight
- aimions
aimions
46,255 corpus weight
- aircraft
aircraft
46,254 corpus weight
- alcoolisés
alcoolisés
46,253 corpus weight
- alde
alde
46,252 corpus weight
- alessandrini
alessandrini
46,251 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aircraft » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aircraft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛə.kɹɑː̩ft\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aircraft » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aircraft is uncommon French at frequency #53,747 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛə.kɹɑː̩ft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aéronef.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aircraft in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aircraft, spelled A-I-R-C-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Aéronef.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aircraft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
American allies like Britain and France also have their own carriers, and Japan has four “helicopter destroyers,” which are technically not aircraft carriers, but carry aircraft. Two are being converted to support short take-off and vertical-landing fighters.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).