arbitraire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,958
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
arbitraire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est produit par la seule volonté de l’homme, sans avoir de règle ni de fondement naturel. Pronounced \aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\. It ranks #9,958 in French word frequency. Often confused with arbitrale and arbitraires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbitraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arbitraire is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,958 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for arbitraire, with forms such as "abritraire", "arbbitraire", and "arbirtaire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "arbitrale", "arbitraires", "arbitrage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is arbitraire, spelled A-R-B-I-T-R-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est produit par la seule volonté de l’homme, sans avoir de règle ni de fondement naturel.
- 2Qui dépend du choix de chaque personne ou de chaque administration, sans en référer à quiconque.
- 3Qui est laissé à la décision du juge.
- 4Qui n’a d’autre règle que la volonté, le caprice d’un maître.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abritraire,arbbitraire,arbirtaire,arbitarire,arbitraier,arbitrairre,arbitrarie,arbitriare,arbitrraire,arbittraire,arbtiraire,aribtraire,arrbitraire,rabitraire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arbitraire
Misspelling Variants of "arbitraire"
Frequency rank: #9,958 in French
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