aire
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,629
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions. Pronounced \ɛʁ\. It ranks #5,629 in French word frequency. Often confused with Art and ait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aire is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,629 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for aire, with forms such as "aier", "airre", and "arie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Art", "ait", "âme", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aire, spelled A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions.
- 2Place qu’on a unie et préparée pour y battre les grains.
- 3Surface plane.
- 4Surface plane.
- 5Surface plane.
- 6Surface plane.
- 7Toute direction selon laquelle souffle le vent.
- 8Espace, lieu où se déroule une chose ou un phénomène.
- 9Nid des oiseaux de proie, parce qu’ils nichent ordinairement sur un espace plat et découvert.
- 10Nid des oiseaux de proie, parce qu’ils nichent ordinairement sur un espace plat et découvert.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aier,airre,arie,iare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aire
Misspelling Variants of "aire"
Frequency rank: #5,629 in French
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