arbalétriers
\aʁ.ba.le.tʁi.je\
The verdict
“arbalétriers” is uncommon French (frequency #70,390 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,390
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arbalétrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arbaletriers · arbalétriers · French
arbalétriers · rank #70,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,390
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aragonais
Nearest frequency peer: aragonais (-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 « arbalétriers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apprivoise
apprivoise
29,614 corpus weight
- Apremont
Apremont
29,613 corpus weight
- aragonais
aragonais
29,612 corpus weight
- arbalétriers
arbalétriers
29,611 corpus weight
- arion
arion
29,609 corpus weight
- armorial
armorial
29,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arbalétriers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbalétriers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ba.le.tʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arbalétriers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arbalétriers is uncommon French at frequency #70,390 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ba.le.tʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de arbalétrier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for arbalétriers in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 arbalétriers, spelled A-R-B-A-L-É-T-R-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arbalétrier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arbalétriers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les meurtrières pratiquées dans les merlons de pierre restaient démasquées dans leur partie inférieure et permettaient aux arbalétriers postés au dedans du parapet sur ce chemin de ronde de lancer des traits sur les assaillants.
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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