Arles
"arles" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Arles” is uncommon English (frequency #55,244 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,244
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-arles · Arles · English
Arles · rank #55,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,244
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ards
Nearest frequency peer: ards (-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 “Arles”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Appalachians
Appalachians
44,760 corpus weight
- apportioned
apportioned
44,759 corpus weight
- ards
ards
44,758 corpus weight
- Arles
Arles
44,757 corpus weight
- arugula
arugula
44,756 corpus weight
- Asante
Asante
44,755 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Arles” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Arles” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Arles is uncommon English at frequency #55,244 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Arles, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Arles. The correct English form is Arles, spelled A-R-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1A city in Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Etymology
From French Arles.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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