aire

\ɛʁ\

/\ɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“aire” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,629) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,629
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aire · aire · French

aire · rank #5,629 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,629
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH agenda

Nearest frequency peer: agenda (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « aire »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « aire » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

aire vs Art
25% similar
aire vs ait
50% similar
aire vs âme
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for aire
PropertyValue
Headwordaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,629
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aire »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.airese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « agenda » (#5,628), « antique » (#5,630), « arrêts » (#5,631). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aire » est au #5,629. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for aire is neighbouring look-alikes ("Art", "ait", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛʁ\. Frequency #5,629 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 10 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aire, with forms such as "aier", "airre", and "arie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Art", "ait", "âme", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 aire, spelled A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions.
  2. 2
    Place qu’on a unie et préparée pour y battre les grains.
  3. 3
    Surface plane.
  4. 4
    Surface plane.
  5. 5
    Surface plane.
  6. 6
    Surface plane.
  7. 7
    Toute direction selon laquelle souffle le vent.
  8. 8
    Espace, lieu où se déroule une chose ou un phénomène.
  9. 9
    Nid des oiseaux de proie, parce qu’ils nichent ordinairement sur un espace plat et découvert.
  10. 10
    Nid des oiseaux de proie, parce qu’ils nichent ordinairement sur un espace plat et découvert.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’aire d’un triangle. L’aire d’un carré. L’aire d’un disque. L’aire d’une sphère. Note : En ce sens, la définition peut être étendue, voir superficie.
  2. Booz s’était couché de fatigue accablé ; Il avait tout le jour travaillé dans son aire ; Puis avait fait son lit à sa place ordinaire ; Booz dormait auprès des boisseaux pleins de blé.

Synonyms

domainerégionsurfacezone

This word in other languages

area(English)área(Español)Adlerhorst(Deutsch)área(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aier
  • airre
  • arie
  • iare

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aier2airre1arie2iare2
Edit distance from "aire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aire"?
"aire" is spelled A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛʁ\.
What does "aire" mean?
As a noun, "aire" means: Superficie, quantité positive associée à une surface bornée, plane ou dans l’espace à trois dimensions.
What words are commonly confused with "aire"?
"aire" is commonly confused with "Art", "ait", "âme". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aire" is \ɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aire" come from?
"aire" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

back#5,632cage#5,639like#5,672lady#5,576

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list