Aylmer
The verdict
“Aylmer” is uncommon French (frequency #52,503 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,503
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aylmer · Aylmer · French
Aylmer · rank #52,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,503
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aventureuse
Nearest frequency peer: aventureuse (-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 « Aylmer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- auditifs
auditifs
47,501 corpus weight
- avalée
avalée
47,500 corpus weight
- aventureuse
aventureuse
47,499 corpus weight
- Aylmer
Aylmer
47,498 corpus weight
- aéroportée
aéroportée
47,497 corpus weight
- backstage
backstage
47,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aylmer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aylmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aylmer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aylmer is uncommon French at frequency #52,503 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Aylmer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is Aylmer, spelled A-Y-L-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Aylmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aylmer Byron Hunt.
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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