axillaire
\ak.si.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“axillaire” is uncommon French (frequency #79,960 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,960
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’aisselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-axillaire · axillaire · French
axillaire · rank #79,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,960
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avouerais
Nearest frequency peer: avouerais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « axillaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- autogéré
autogéré
20,045 corpus weight
- avalées
avalées
20,044 corpus weight
- avoisinante
avoisinante
20,043 corpus weight
- avouerais
avouerais
20,042 corpus weight
- axillaire
axillaire
20,041 corpus weight
- balaient
balaient
20,038 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « axillaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | axillaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ak.si.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « axillaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
axillaire is uncommon French at frequency #79,960 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ak.si.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for axillaire in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is axillaire, spelled A-X-I-L-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à l’aisselle.
- 2Toute partie qui naît dans l’espèce d’aisselle formée par la tige et un rameau, ou par un rameau et une feuille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how axillaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle n’a jamais su qu’à chaque retour l’odeur de sa pelisse en ventre-de-gris, pénétrée d’un parfum châtain clair, féminin, chaste, éloigné des basses séductions axillaires, m’ôtait la parole et jusqu’à l’effusion.
Le premier renforcement forme une gaine assez ferme pour le paquet vasculo-nerveux, le second est une lame qui unit la gaine vasculo-nerveuse à l’aponévrose clavi-pectorale et ferme ainsi comme un dôme l’espace axillaire.
This word in other languages
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.
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