Arbois
\aʁ.bwa\
The verdict
“Arbois” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,341
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Jura.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arbois · Arbois · French
Arbois · rank #48,341 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,341
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Armageddon
Nearest frequency peer: Armageddon (+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 « Arbois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- appréciables
appréciables
51,664 corpus weight
- appréciaient
appréciaient
51,663 corpus weight
- appuiera
appuiera
51,662 corpus weight
- Arbois
Arbois
51,660 corpus weight
- Armageddon
Armageddon
51,659 corpus weight
- Asean
Asean
51,657 corpus weight
What this shows « Arbois » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arbois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.bwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arbois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Arbois (IPA \aʁ.bwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,341 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arbois, with forms such as "abrois", "arbbois", and "arbios". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "aris", "Argos", "Artis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Arbois, spelled A-R-B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Jura.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Jura.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arbois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une tannerie était à louer, dans les environs, à l'entrée même de la ville d’Arbois, près du pont bâti sur la Cuisance, rivière qui prend sa source à une lieue de là.
« En ces temps-là, la Bourgogne était heureuse »… et la Franche-Comté itou. Des coteaux d’Arbois, de Poligny et de Salins, descendait, chaque automne, avec les cuves pleines, le beau vin couleur peau d’oignon, jailli des grappes de poulsard, et les vignerons à rouge trogne bénissaient le Seigneur dont le bon soleil gorgeait de vie les pampres vigoureux et…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrois
- arbbois
- arbios
- arboiss
- arbosi
- arobis
- arrbois
- rabois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arbois - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).