arbousier

\aʁ.bu.zje\

/\aʁ.bu.zje\/ noun

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The verdict

“arbousier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Nom usuel de divers arbres du genre Arbutus et en particulier d’Arbutus unedo, arbuste ou petit arbre de la famille des Ericaceae (Éricacées), originaire du pourtour de la Méditerranée, dont les fr...

Corpus desk

Index FR-arbousier · arbousier · French

arbousier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for arbousier
PropertyValue
Headwordarbousier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.bu.zje\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “arbousier” sits in French frequency

arbousier falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

arbousier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.bu.zje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel de divers arbres du genre Arbutus et en particulier d’Arbutus unedo, arbuste ou petit arbre de la famille des Ericaceae (Éricacées), originaire du pourtour de la Méditerranée, dont les fr...".

No generated misspelling entries exist for arbousier in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is arbousier, spelled A-R-B-O-U-S-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de divers arbres du genre Arbutus et en particulier d’Arbutus unedo, arbuste ou petit arbre de la famille des Ericaceae (Éricacées), originaire du pourtour de la Méditerranée, dont les fruits nommés arbouses sont rouges, légèrement farineuses et à la chair jaune.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. J'ai également rencontré l’Arbousier à l’Est de l’Angleterre, dans le Suflolk; puis j'ai appris par correspondance que l’Arbousier se trouvait en abondance dans le Dorehester, le Devonshire, le Wiltshire, le -Yorkshire, le Westmoreland; en Écosse, en Irlande dans le Killarney (…)
  2. Nous arrivâmes ainsi à Hango, ainsi nous passâmes à travers la haie d’arbousiers qui servait de clôture au cimetière.

Synonyms

arbre à fraisesarbre aux fraisesfraisier en arbre

This word in other languages

arbutus(English)madroño(Español)Erdbeerbaum(Deutsch)medronheiro(Português)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arbousier"?
"arbousier" is spelled A-R-B-O-U-S-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.bu.zje\.
What does "arbousier" mean?
As a noun, "arbousier" means: Nom usuel de divers arbres du genre Arbutus et en particulier d’Arbutus unedo, arbuste ou petit arbre de la famille des Ericaceae (Éricacées), originaire du pourtour de la Méditerranée, dont les fr...
How do you pronounce "arbousier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arbousier" is \aʁ.bu.zje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list