architrave
\aʁ.ʃi.tʁav\
The verdict
“architrave” is uncommon French (frequency #87,332 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,332
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de l’entablement posée immédiatement sur les colonnes et portant la frise et la corniche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-architrave · architrave · French
architrave · rank #87,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,332
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arak
Nearest frequency peer: arak (-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 « architrave »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apporteur
apporteur
12,673 corpus weight
- aquariophil…
aquariophilie
12,672 corpus weight
- aqueuses
aqueuses
12,671 corpus weight
- arak
arak
12,670 corpus weight
- architrave
architrave
12,669 corpus weight
- assidument
assidument
12,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « architrave » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | architrave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʃi.tʁav\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « architrave » en français
Rare enough to double-check
architrave is uncommon French at frequency #87,332 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʃi.tʁav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie de l’entablement posée immédiatement sur les colonnes et portant la frise et la corniche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for architrave in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is architrave, spelled A-R-C-H-I-T-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de l’entablement posée immédiatement sur les colonnes et portant la frise et la corniche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how architrave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la plupart des temples anciens, les architraves étaient d’un seul bloc de pierre ou de marbre, de l’axe d’une colonne à l’autre.
Trois colonnes avaient succombé, emportant dans leur chute une partie de l’architrave…
This word in other languages
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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