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aire

French, noun

aire is spelled A-I-R-E (4 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,648th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aire is a French feminine noun meaning “(surface) area” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of airer. With an accent, airé is a different word: “past participle of airer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions”.

What does aire mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminine(surface) area

  2. 2

    femininea flat surface

  3. 3

    femininedirection of the wind

  4. 4

    femininethreshing floor

  5. 5

    femininearea, zone, range (a space in which a certain thing occurs)

noun

  1. 1

    feminineeyrie, aerie

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular present imperative

suffix

as -aire
  1. 1

    femininemasculine-ary (nominal suffix)

  2. 2

    femininemasculine-aire

suffix

as -aire
  1. 1

    -ary (adjectival suffix)

verb

as airé
  1. 1

    past participle of airer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions. 2. Place qu’on a unie et préparée pour y battre les grains. 3. Surface plane. 4. D’un plancher : l’enduit de maçonnerie sur lequel on pose le parquet ou le carrelage.

suffix: 1. Suffixe adjectival, parfois nominal. 2. Utilisé pour former des néologismes ne marquant pas le genre pour les noms d’agent.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of aire

  • aires plural
  • airée feminine
  • airés masculine plural
  • airées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to aire

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is aire in French?

aire appears 13 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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