arbre à caoutchouc
\aʁ.bʁ‿a ka.u.tʃu\
The verdict
“arbre à caoutchouc” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arbre à feuillage persistant aux feuilles trifoliées de la famille des euphorbiacées de la forêt amazonienne atteignant fréquemment plus de 30 m et exploité pour son latex (Hevea brasiliensis).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbre à caoutchouc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.bʁ‿a ka.u.tʃu\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arbre à caoutchouc” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
arbre à caoutchouc is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.bʁ‿a ka.u.tʃu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbre à feuillage persistant aux feuilles trifoliées de la famille des euphorbiacées de la forêt amazonienne atteignant fréquemment plus de 30 m et exploité pour son latex (Hevea brasiliensis).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for arbre à caoutchouc, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is arbre à caoutchouc, spelled A-R-B-R-E- -À- -C-A-O-U-T-C-H-O-U-C.
Definition
- 1Arbre à feuillage persistant aux feuilles trifoliées de la famille des euphorbiacées de la forêt amazonienne atteignant fréquemment plus de 30 m et exploité pour son latex (Hevea brasiliensis).
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Using “arbre à caoutchouc”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-R-B-R-E- -À- -C-A-O-U-T-C-H-O-U-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.