arceaux
\aʁ.so\
The verdict
“arceaux” is uncommon French (frequency #58,413 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,413
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arceau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arceaux · arceaux · French
arceaux · rank #58,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,413
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH applied
Nearest frequency peer: applied (-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 « arceaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antipathie
antipathie
41,591 corpus weight
- APM
APM
41,590 corpus weight
- applied
applied
41,589 corpus weight
- arceaux
arceaux
41,588 corpus weight
- argenton
argenton
41,586 corpus weight
- arrachement
arrachement
41,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arceaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arceaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arceaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arceaux is uncommon French at frequency #58,413 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de arceau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for arceaux in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arceaux, spelled A-R-C-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arceau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arceaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Véritable « tente de bureau », l’équipement en mesh de polyester repose sur un simple système d’arceaux flexibles qu’il suffit de déplier.
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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