archaïsmes
\aʁ.ka.ism\
The verdict
“archaïsmes” is uncommon French (frequency #79,938 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,938
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de archaïsme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-archaismes · archaïsmes · French
archaïsmes · rank #79,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,938
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Arbeit
Nearest frequency peer: Arbeit (-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 « archaïsmes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- approfondis…
approfondissant
20,066 corpus weight
- appréhendais
appréhendais
20,065 corpus weight
- Arbeit
Arbeit
20,064 corpus weight
- archaïsmes
archaïsmes
20,063 corpus weight
- arcos
arcos
20,062 corpus weight
- armant
armant
20,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « archaïsmes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | archaïsmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ka.ism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « archaïsmes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
archaïsmes is uncommon French at frequency #79,938 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ka.ism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de archaïsme.".
archaïsmes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is archaïsmes, spelled A-R-C-H-A-Ï-S-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de archaïsme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how archaïsmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Flamands "déjoualisent" : en accédant au statut de "nation", au cours des années soixante, les Flamands, jadis dominés par les Wallons francophones, se sont rendus compte que le "flamand", cet ensemble de dialectes et de patois du néerlandais, bourré d’archaïsmes, de régionalismes, de gallicismes et de germanismes, ne pourrait leur servir de langue na…
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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