arc
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,180
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
arc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arme de trait servant à lancer des flèches, formée d’une branche de bois ou d’une verge, soit de métal, soit d’autre matière, courbée avec effort au moyen d’une corde qui s’attache aux deux extrémi... Pronounced \aʁk\. It ranks #3,180 in French word frequency. Often confused with au and As.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arc is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁk\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,180 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for arc in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is arc, spelled A-R-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme de trait servant à lancer des flèches, formée d’une branche de bois ou d’une verge, soit de métal, soit d’autre matière, courbée avec effort au moyen d’une corde qui s’attache aux deux extrémités.
- 2Portion définie d’une courbe.
- 3Coalition politique qui regroupe plusieurs partis dans l’hémicycle d'une assemblée politique.
- 4Construction de forme courbe dont les deux extrémités vont s’appuyer sur des points solides.
- 5Monument public ayant la forme d'une arche. → voir arc de triomphe
- 6Dans un graphe orienté, trait joignant un sommet à un autre.
- 7Décharge d’électricité qui produit une vive lumière.
- 8Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté sans flèche, détendu et posé en fasce.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3,180 in French
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