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are/ares/ars/arts/hare

"arts" (#1,692 written frequency) beats "are" (#6,166) in this 5-word /\aʁ\/ cluster. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.

Data vintage 2026-05-06

Frequency splits the cluster

These 5 spellings keep the same /\aʁ\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "arts" leads at #1,692, with "are" trailing at #6,166.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

Shared stem "are" then splits - "are" (3 letters) vs "ares" (4).
Single-letter fork: "are" keeps e, "ars" writes s at letter 3.
Shared stem "ar" then splits - "are" (3 letters) vs "arts" (4).
No shared spelling stem: "are" is 3 letters, "hare" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Shared stem "ar" then splits - "ares" (4 letters) vs "ars" (3).
Shared stem "ar" then splits - "ares" (4 letters) vs "arts" (4).
No shared spelling stem: "ares" is 4 letters, "hare" is 4; only the sound ties them.
Shared stem "ar" then splits - "ars" (3 letters) vs "arts" (4).
No shared spelling stem: "ars" is 3 letters, "hare" is 4; only the sound ties them.
No shared spelling stem: "arts" is 4 letters, "hare" is 4; only the sound ties them.

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across are, ares, ars, arts, hare: ar. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

are
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCV
Inventory aer · private e
ares
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCVC
Inventory aers · private es
ars
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape VCC
Inventory ars · private s
arts
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape VCCC
Inventory arst · private st
hare
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory aehr · private eh

Pick the spelling from the meaning

Write "are" when you mean: Unité de mesure de surface de terrains, égale à 100 mètres carrés.
Write "ares" when you mean: Pluriel de are.
Write "ars" when you mean: Pli formé par la réunion des membres antérieurs et du poitrail du cheval.
Write "arts" when you mean: Pluriel de art.
Write "hare" when you mean: Variante de hart.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

ares ← aers · aress · arse · raes
arts ← arrts · arst · artss · artts · atrs
hare ← ahre · haer · harre · hhare · hrae

Each spelling

are

noun · /\aʁ\/ · #6,166 frequency

Unité de mesure de surface de terrains, égale à 100 mètres carrés.

ares

noun · /\aʁ\/ · #33,119 frequency

Pluriel de are.

ars

noun · /\aʁ\/ · #15,805 frequency

Pli formé par la réunion des membres antérieurs et du poitrail du cheval.

arts

noun · /\aʁ\/ · #1,692 frequency

Pluriel de art.

hare

noun · /\aʁ\/ · #36,876 frequency

Variante de hart.