Tag: aisle

aisle: (noun) a passage between rows of seats or between shelves

isle: (noun) island

aile: (noun) French for wing

Unless you are talking about French birds or airplanes, you need an S in your word. If you are talking about the Emerald Isle (St. Patrick’s Day is coming), you do not need an A in isle.

I regularly see “isle” when “aisle” is meant, but the funny thing about that (for me) is that aisles are more like the river that flows around the islands of shelves. So it’s all kinds of backwards.

An “aile” isn’t English, but it still gets thrown into the mix now and then.