arable
\a.ʁabl\
The verdict
“arable” is an uncommon French word, ranked #78,131 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #78,131
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualifie une terre dont la nature rend le labour possible, ou sa culture productive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arable is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #78,131 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 edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arable, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arable, spelled A-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une terre dont la nature rend le labour possible, ou sa culture productive.
- 2Qualifie la couche du sol qui reçoit ou peut recevoir le soc de la charrue.
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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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Using “arable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-R-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ʁabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.