arabette des dames
\a.ʁa.bɛt de dam\
The verdict
“arabette des dames” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante annuelle crucifère appartenant à la famille des Brassicacées, de nom scientifique Arabidopsis thaliana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arabette des dames |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁa.bɛt de dam\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arabette des dames” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arabette des dames is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁa.bɛt de dam\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plante annuelle crucifère appartenant à la famille des Brassicacées, de nom scientifique Arabidopsis thaliana.".
No misspelling variants are generated for arabette des dames in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 arabette des dames, spelled A-R-A-B-E-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -D-A-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante annuelle crucifère appartenant à la famille des Brassicacées, de nom scientifique Arabidopsis thaliana.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is A-R-A-B-E-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -D-A-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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