archivolte
\aʁ.ʃi.vɔlt\
The verdict
“archivolte” is uncommon French (frequency #96,611 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,611
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bandeau mouluré placé en saillie au-dessus de l'intrados et qui suit le cintre d’une arcade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | archivolte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʃi.vɔlt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “archivolte” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
archivolte is uncommon French at frequency #96,611 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʃi.vɔlt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bandeau mouluré placé en saillie au-dessus de l'intrados et qui suit le cintre d’une arcade.".
archivolte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is archivolte, spelled A-R-C-H-I-V-O-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bandeau mouluré placé en saillie au-dessus de l'intrados et qui suit le cintre d’une arcade.
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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Using “archivolte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-R-C-H-I-V-O-L-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \aʁ.ʃi.vɔlt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.