araignée d’eau
\a.ʁɛ.ɲe d‿o\
The verdict
“araignée d’eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs insectes de l’ordre des hémiptères, famille des gerridés ou des hydrométridés, capables de se déplacer à la surface de l’eau, les pattes antérieures ne servant qu’à la...
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Index FR-araignee-d-eau · araignée d’eau · French
araignée d’eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | araignée d’eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.ɲe d‿o\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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araignée d’eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁɛ.ɲe d‿o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs insectes de l’ordre des hémiptères, famille des gerridés ou des hydrométridés, capables de se déplacer à la surface de l’eau, les pattes antérieures ne servant qu’à la...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for araignée d’eau in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is araignée d’eau, spelled A-R-A-I-G-N-É-E- -D-’-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs insectes de l’ordre des hémiptères, famille des gerridés ou des hydrométridés, capables de se déplacer à la surface de l’eau, les pattes antérieures ne servant qu’à la prédation.
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