abricotier
\a.bʁi.kɔ.tje\
The verdict
“abricotier” is uncommon French (frequency #95,502 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,502
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre fruitier de la famille des Rosacées produisant l’abricot, de nom scientifique Prunus armeniaca.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abricotier · abricotier · French
abricotier · rank #95,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,502
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aboyait
Nearest frequency peer: aboyait (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « abricotier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ability
ability
4,501 corpus weight
- aboyait
aboyait
4,500 corpus weight
- abricotier
abricotier
4,499 corpus weight
- Abruzzi
Abruzzi
4,498 corpus weight
- absorba
absorba
4,497 corpus weight
- acadia
acadia
4,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abricotier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abricotier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.bʁi.kɔ.tje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abricotier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abricotier is uncommon French at frequency #95,502 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.bʁi.kɔ.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbre fruitier de la famille des Rosacées produisant l’abricot, de nom scientifique Prunus armeniaca.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for abricotier in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is abricotier, spelled A-B-R-I-C-O-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arbre fruitier de la famille des Rosacées produisant l’abricot, de nom scientifique Prunus armeniaca.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abricotier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des montagnes de Walachie sont garnies de bois composés de poiriers, de cerisiers, d’abricotiers et autres arbres fruitiers qui donnent aux forêts l’aspect d’immenses vergers.
Nous sommes au fond de son jardin, au beau mois de juin, sous un abricotier touffu, assis à nous toucher sur le même tabouret, dans une maison grande comme une ruche d’abeille que, pour notre usage personnel, nous avons construite nous-mêmes avec de vieilles planches, et couverte avec des nattes exotiques ayant jadis emballé du café des Antilles.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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