arboretum
\aʁ.bɔ.ʁe.tɔm\
The verdict
“arboretum” is uncommon French (frequency #63,517 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,517
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jardin botanique où sont collectionnés des arbres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arboretum · arboretum · French
arboretum · rank #63,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,517
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aral
Nearest frequency peer: Aral (-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 « arboretum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appétissante
appétissante
36,486 corpus weight
- Aral
Aral
36,485 corpus weight
- arboretum
arboretum
36,484 corpus weight
- arcane
arcane
36,483 corpus weight
- archiprêtre
archiprêtre
36,482 corpus weight
- arco
arco
36,481 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arboretum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arboretum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.bɔ.ʁe.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arboretum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arboretum is uncommon French at frequency #63,517 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.bɔ.ʁe.tɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jardin botanique où sont collectionnés des arbres.".
Zero misspellings are on record for arboretum in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is arboretum, spelled A-R-B-O-R-E-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Jardin botanique où sont collectionnés des arbres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arboretum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De plus, un arboretum, qui avait été endommagé par la tempête de 1999, est également visible.
Les arboretums sont des collections d’essences exotiques établies en principe dans des Macrosites représentatifs des zones d’introduction possibles. C’est la méthode traditionnelle utilisée en Europe depuis la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle pour comparer les essences.
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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