aquarelle

/\a.kwa.ʁɛl\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,742

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

aquarelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Technique de peinture à l’eau sur papier, avec des couleurs transparentes, ayant le moins d’épaisseur possible. Pronounced \a.kwa.ʁɛl\.

Key facts for aquarelle
PropertyValue
Headwordaquarelle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.kwa.ʁɛl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#19,742
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aquarelle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for aquarelle is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kwa.ʁɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,742 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for aquarelle, with forms such as "aqaurelle", "aqquarelle", and "aquaerlle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aquarelle, spelled A-Q-U-A-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Technique de peinture à l’eau sur papier, avec des couleurs transparentes, ayant le moins d’épaisseur possible.
  2. 2
    Œuvre peinte avec cette technique.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aqaurelle,aqquarelle,aquaerlle,aquarele,aquarelel,aquarlele,aquarrelle,aquraelle,auqarelle,qauarelle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aquarelle

Misspelling Variants of "aquarelle"

aqaurelle9aqquarelle10aquaerlle9aquarele8aquarelel9aquarlele9aquarrelle10aquraelle9
Misspelling Variants of "aquarelle"

Frequency rank: #19,742 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aquarelle"?
"aquarelle" is spelled A-Q-U-A-R-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kwa.ʁɛl\.
What does "aquarelle" mean?
As a noun, "aquarelle" means: Technique de peinture à l’eau sur papier, avec des couleurs transparentes, ayant le moins d’épaisseur possible.
What are common misspellings of "aquarelle"?
Common misspellings include "aqaurelle", "aqquarelle", "aquaerlle", "aquarele", "aquarelel". The correct spelling is "aquarelle".
How do you pronounce "aquarelle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aquarelle" is \a.kwa.ʁɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aquarelle" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.