arbre à beurre
\aʁ.bʁ‿a bœʁ\
The verdict
“arbre à beurre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Karité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arbre-a-beurre · arbre à beurre · French
arbre à beurre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbre à beurre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.bʁ‿a bœʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arbre à beurre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arbre à beurre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.bʁ‿a bœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Karité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arbre à beurre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is arbre à beurre, spelled A-R-B-R-E- -À- -B-E-U-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Karité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arbre à beurre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux productions non moins estimables peut-être que l’or et l’argent, sont indigènes à ces belles contrées, et y pullulent d’une manière prodigieuse : c’est le Lotus ou arbre à pain des anciens, dont parle Pline, et le Shéa ou arbre à beurre, dont le voyageur anglais Mongo-Park a donné la description.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.