archivolte
\aʁ.ʃi.vɔlt\
The verdict
“archivolte” is uncommon French (frequency #96,611 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,611
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bandeau mouluré placé en saillie au-dessus de l'intrados et qui suit le cintre d’une arcade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-archivolte · archivolte · French
archivolte · rank #96,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,611
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Arellano
Nearest frequency peer: Arellano (+2 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 « archivolte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- applaudisse
applaudisse
3,395 corpus weight
- apporteurs
apporteurs
3,394 corpus weight
- apprenties
apprenties
3,393 corpus weight
- archivolte
archivolte
3,390 corpus weight
- Arellano
Arellano
3,388 corpus weight
- arienne
arienne
3,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « archivolte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « archivolte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
archivolte is uncommon French at frequency #96,611 among 6,727 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how archivolte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ils furent sous l’archivolte noire d’une porte cochère, à l’abri des regards et de la pluie : – Sais-tu où je vas ? demanda Montparnasse.
Dès le XIᵉ siècle, les portails de nos églises possèdent des zodiaques sculptés sur les archivoltes des portes.
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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