arcatures
\aʁ.ka.tyʁ\
The verdict
“arcatures” is uncommon French (frequency #78,133 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arcature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arcatures · arcatures · French
arcatures · rank #78,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,133
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arboraient
Nearest frequency peer: arboraient (-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 « arcatures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- approuves
approuves
21,871 corpus weight
- arable
arable
21,870 corpus weight
- arboraient
arboraient
21,869 corpus weight
- arcatures
arcatures
21,868 corpus weight
- arien
arien
21,867 corpus weight
- artésien
artésien
21,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arcatures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arcatures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ka.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arcatures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arcatures is uncommon French at frequency #78,133 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ka.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de arcature.".
arcatures doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arcatures, spelled A-R-C-A-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arcature.
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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