contrôleur aérien
\kɔ̃.tʁo.lœ.ʁ‿a.e.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“contrôleur aérien” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne chargée de la régulation de la circulation dans l’espace aérien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôleur aérien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁo.lœ.ʁ‿a.e.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrôleur aérien” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contrôleur aérien is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁo.lœ.ʁ‿a.e.ʁjɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne chargée de la régulation de la circulation dans l’espace aérien.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contrôleur aérien, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contrôleur aérien, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E-U-R- -A-É-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Personne chargée de la régulation de la circulation dans l’espace aérien.
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E-U-R- -A-É-R-I-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.