arche
\aʁʃ\
The verdict
“arche” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,990
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie cintrée d’un pont, d’un aqueduc, d’un viaduc, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arche · arche · French
arche · rank #10,990 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,990
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antérieure
Nearest frequency peer: antérieure (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- amicale
amicale
89,014 corpus weight
- animateurs
animateurs
89,013 corpus weight
- antérieure
antérieure
89,012 corpus weight
- arche
arche
89,011 corpus weight
- argile
argile
89,010 corpus weight
- Armand
Armand
89,009 corpus weight
What this shows « arche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around arche (IPA \aʁʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,990 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for arche, with forms such as "acrhe", "arcche", and "arceh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "armé", "arte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arche, spelled A-R-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Partie cintrée d’un pont, d’un aqueduc, d’un viaduc, etc.
- 2Formation géologique constituée d’un arc rocheux creusé naturellement par l’érosion.
- 3Voûte en arc d’un bâtiment.
- 4Ce qui fait le lien entre deux concepts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bert examina un moment l’arche rompue du pont, puis, par-delà le fleuve, son regard contempla la désolation de la ville saccagée.
Le vénérable pont sur le Tarn a non seulement de hautes arches en ogive, mais ses piles de briques, entre les les voûtes et au-dessus des avant-becs, sont percées de baies du même style.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrhe
- arcche
- arceh
- archhe
- arhce
- arrche
- rache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arche - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).