arachnides
\a.ʁak.nid\
The verdict
“arachnides” is uncommon French (frequency #65,700 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,700
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arachnide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arachnides · arachnides · French
arachnides · rank #65,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,700
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approbations
Nearest frequency peer: approbations (-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 « arachnides »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appelants
appelants
34,304 corpus weight
- applaudissez
applaudissez
34,303 corpus weight
- approbations
approbations
34,302 corpus weight
- arachnides
arachnides
34,301 corpus weight
- arbrisseaux
arbrisseaux
34,300 corpus weight
- arce
arce
34,299 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arachnides » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arachnides |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁak.nid\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arachnides » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arachnides is uncommon French at frequency #65,700 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁak.nid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de arachnide.".
arachnides doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is arachnides, spelled A-R-A-C-H-N-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arachnide.
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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