arable
\a.ʁabl\
The verdict
“arable” is uncommon French (frequency #78,131 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,131
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une terre dont la nature rend le labour possible, ou sa culture productive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arable · arable · French
arable · rank #78,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,131
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approuves
Nearest frequency peer: approuves (-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 « arable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appro
appro
21,872 corpus weight
- approuves
approuves
21,871 corpus weight
- arable
arable
21,870 corpus weight
- arboraient
arboraient
21,869 corpus weight
- arcatures
arcatures
21,868 corpus weight
- arien
arien
21,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « arable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arable is uncommon French at frequency #78,131 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les moissons de céréales devraient probablement diminuer considérablement à cause des effets du réchauffement mondial, et il faudra donc plus de 10 millions d’hectares de terres arables supplémentaires pour nourrir la population d’ici 2030, a déclaré ce mercredi 22 août un employé de haut rang en charge des questions climatiques.
Tous les ans, en Europe, 100 000 ha de terres arables disparaissent sous le goudron.
Synonyms
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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