Ararat
\a.ʁa.ʁa\
The verdict
“Ararat” is uncommon French (frequency #83,595 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,595
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volcan situé sur le haut-plateau arménien, à l’est de la Turquie dont il constitue le sommet le plus élevé (5 165 mètres d’altitude).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ararat · Ararat · French
Ararat · rank #83,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,595
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appuierait
Nearest frequency peer: appuierait (-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 « Ararat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apparentait
apparentait
16,409 corpus weight
- apprêtes
apprêtes
16,408 corpus weight
- appuierait
appuierait
16,407 corpus weight
- Ararat
Ararat
16,406 corpus weight
- arbi
arbi
16,405 corpus weight
- arboricole
arboricole
16,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ararat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ararat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁa.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ararat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ararat is uncommon French at frequency #83,595 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ʁa.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Ararat has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ararat, spelled A-R-A-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Volcan situé sur le haut-plateau arménien, à l’est de la Turquie dont il constitue le sommet le plus élevé (5 165 mètres d’altitude).
- 2D’après la Bible, montagne sur laquelle l’arche de Noé aurait échoué à la fin du Déluge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ararat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans rien attendre de plus, je m’embarquai pour Marseille, et de là pour Salonique, Constantinople puis Trébizonde, avant de contourner à dos de mulet le mont Ararat jusqu’à Tabriz.
Et je n’aurai pas même le temps de visiter le mont Ararat, à l’endroit où s’est arrêtée, au quarantième jour du déluge, l’arche de Noé, ce chaland primitif de l’illustre patriarche !
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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