arbour
"arbour" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“arbour” is uncommon English (frequency #70,462 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,462
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - UK standard spelling of arbor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-arbour · arbour · English
arbour · rank #70,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,462
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ardour
Nearest frequency peer: ardour (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “arbour”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anis
Anis
29,545 corpus weight
- apoplectic
apoplectic
29,543 corpus weight
- arbour
arbour
29,539 corpus weight
- ardour
ardour
29,538 corpus weight
- ascribes
ascribes
29,537 corpus weight
- async
async
29,535 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “arbour” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbour |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “arbour” in English
Rare enough to double-check
arbour is uncommon English at frequency #70,462 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "UK standard spelling of arbor.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arbour, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English arbere, arber, an alteration of herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”) influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”). The correct English form is arbour, spelled A-R-B-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1UK standard spelling of arbor.
Etymology
From Middle English arbere, arber, an alteration of herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”) influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).