arboricole
\aʁ.bɔ.ʁi.kɔl\
The verdict
“arboricole” is uncommon French (frequency #83,597 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,597
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui vit dans les arbres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arboricole · arboricole · French
arboricole · rank #83,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,597
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arbi
Nearest frequency peer: arbi (-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 « arboricole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appuierait
appuierait
16,407 corpus weight
- Ararat
Ararat
16,406 corpus weight
- arbi
arbi
16,405 corpus weight
- arboricole
arboricole
16,404 corpus weight
- architecton…
architectonique
16,403 corpus weight
- Arianne
Arianne
16,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arboricole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arboricole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.bɔ.ʁi.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arboricole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arboricole is uncommon French at frequency #83,597 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.bɔ.ʁi.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for arboricole in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arboricole, spelled A-R-B-O-R-I-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui vit dans les arbres.
- 2Qui a trait à l’arboriculture, c’est-à-dire la culture des arbres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arboricole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le prédateur humain avait hérité de ses ancêtres arboricoles, perchés sur les branches, de formidables « récepteurs à distance » : la vue et l’ouïe.
This word in other languages
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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