argilah
\aʁ.ʒi.la\
The verdict
“argilah” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L'un des synonymes de marabout argala (Leptotilos dubius), un échassier de la famille des ciconiidés, également appelé adjudant ou, désuètement, cigogne à sac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argilah · argilah · French
argilah · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | argilah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒi.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « argilah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
argilah is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʒi.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "L'un des synonymes de marabout argala (Leptotilos dubius), un échassier de la famille des ciconiidés, également appelé adjudant ou, désuètement, cigogne à sac.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for argilah, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is argilah, spelled A-R-G-I-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1L'un des synonymes de marabout argala (Leptotilos dubius), un échassier de la famille des ciconiidés, également appelé adjudant ou, désuètement, cigogne à sac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how argilah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'argilah, que la science a baptisée du nom vulgaire de cigogne à sac… le public, frappé de la gravité de sa démarche et de l'air penseur de son crâne dénudé, lui a donné le nom plus pittoresque de philosophe ou d'adjudant.
Obligé de me défaire de ma collection de plumes d’aigrettes, de paons, de faisans, d’argilahs, de perruches, de casoars et d’une infinité d’oiseaux de luxe, je la vendis aux marchands plumassiers de Via-Nuova...
Synonyms
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.