arbitraires

\aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\

/\aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“arbitraires” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,633
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arbitraire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arbitraires · arbitraires · French

arbitraires · rank #20,633 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,633
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amos

Nearest frequency peer: amos (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arbitraires »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « arbitraires » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

arbitraires vs arbitraire
91% similar
arbitraires vs arbitrages
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for arbitraires
PropertyValue
Headwordarbitraires
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#20,633
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arbitraires »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).arbitrairesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « amos » (#20,632), « Ashton » (#20,634), « attestent » (#20,635). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « arbitraires » est au #20,633. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around arbitraires (IPA \aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,633 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de arbitraire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for arbitraires, with forms such as "abritraires", "arbbitraires", and "arbirtaires". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "arbitraire", "arbitrages", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 arbitraires, spelled A-R-B-I-T-R-A-I-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de arbitraire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how arbitraires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En Amérique, où nous ne dépendons que de nous-mêmes, où nous n’avons plus à ménager les lois arbitraires du rang et de la bienséance, où l’on nous croit même mariés, qui empêche que nous ne le soyons bientôt effectivement et que nous n’anoblissions notre amour par des serments que la religion autorise ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abritraires
  • arbbitraires
  • arbirtaires
  • arbitarires
  • arbitraiers
  • arbitrairess
  • arbitrairres
  • arbitrairse
  • arbitraries
  • arbitriares
  • arbitrraires
  • arbittraires
  • arbtiraires
  • aribtraires
  • arrbitraires
  • rabitraires

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arbitraires - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abritraires2arbbitraires1arbirtaires2arbitarires2arbitraiers2arbitrairess1arbitrairres1arbitrairse2
Edit distance from "arbitraires"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arbitraires"?
"arbitraires" is spelled A-R-B-I-T-R-A-I-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\.
What does "arbitraires" mean?
As an adjective, "arbitraires" means: Pluriel de arbitraire.
What words are commonly confused with "arbitraires"?
"arbitraires" is commonly confused with "arbitraire", "arbitrages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "arbitraires"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arbitraires" is \aʁ.bi.tʁɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arbitraires" come from?
"arbitraires" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arbitraires", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list