Arbeit
\ˈaʁ.baɪ̯t\
The verdict
“Arbeit” is uncommon French (frequency #79,937 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,937
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travail, peine que l'on prend à faire quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arbeit · Arbeit · French
Arbeit · rank #79,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,937
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appréhendais
Nearest frequency peer: appréhendais (-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 « Arbeit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- approfondis…
approfondissant
20,066 corpus weight
- appréhendais
appréhendais
20,065 corpus weight
- Arbeit
Arbeit
20,064 corpus weight
- archaïsmes
archaïsmes
20,063 corpus weight
- arcos
arcos
20,062 corpus weight
- armant
armant
20,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Arbeit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arbeit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaʁ.baɪ̯t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Arbeit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Arbeit is uncommon French at frequency #79,937 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈaʁ.baɪ̯t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Arbeit, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Arbeit, spelled A-R-B-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Travail, peine que l'on prend à faire quelque chose.
- 2Travail : emploi.
- 3Travail de construction, de rénovation, etc. (comme en français souvent au pluriel).
- 4Travail : ouvrage, tâche, chose que l'on a fait ou qui est à faire.
- 5Contrôle scolaire, devoir surveillé, composition écrite.
- 6Étude, article.
- 7Travail effectué par une force.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arbeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Arbeit wächst mir über den Kopf. — (Assimil, L’allemand sans peine, 1935).
An die Arbeit gehen / Sich an die Arbeit machen.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).