airelle rouge
\ɛ.ʁɛl ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“airelle rouge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. vitis-idaea, sous-arbrisseau du genre Vaccinium de la famille des Ericaceae, au feuilles persistantes, et dont les baies rouges sont comestibles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-airelle-rouge · airelle rouge · French
airelle rouge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | airelle rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɛl ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
airelle rouge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.ʁɛl ʁuʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
airelle rouge doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is airelle rouge, spelled A-I-R-E-L-L-E- -R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Vaccinium vitis-idaea subsp. vitis-idaea, sous-arbrisseau du genre Vaccinium de la famille des Ericaceae, au feuilles persistantes, et dont les baies rouges sont comestibles.
- 2Fruit de ce sous-arbrisseau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how airelle rouge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On vendait autrefois les airelles rouges sur les marchés londoniens. On en prépare des gelées qui se mangent traditionnellement avec le gibier, surtout dans les pays slaves et germaniques.
Il existe d'autres espèces également comestibles, telles l’airelle rouge, que l'on trouve beaucoup dans le Jura, et l’airelle bleue, à la chair blanche et un peu fade. Les myrtilles sont astringentes, antiseptiques, antisclérotique vasculaire et sont un bon minéralisant.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.