arapède
\a.ʁa.pɛd\
The verdict
“arapède” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En Méditerranée, désigne les coquillages connus sous le nom de patelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arapede · arapède · French
arapède · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | arapède |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁa.pɛd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
arapède is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁa.pɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
arapède has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 arapède, spelled A-R-A-P-È-D-E.
Definition
- 1En Méditerranée, désigne les coquillages connus sous le nom de patelles.
- 2(en particulier) Synonyme de patelle bleue (espèce de mollusque).
- 3Coquillage connu sous le nom de bernique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arapède appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je criai de douleur et essayai de m’en débarrasser, mais il était collé à moi comme un arapède à son rocher.
Les blagueurs vous diront (…) que les insulaires trouvent parfois des arapèdes collés à leurs tables et à leurs chaises, comme aux écailles des tortues de mer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.