arco
\aʁ.ko\
The verdict
“arco” is uncommon French (frequency #63,520 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,520
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de arcot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arco · arco · French
arco · rank #63,520 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,520
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH archiprêtre
Nearest frequency peer: archiprêtre (-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 « arco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arboretum
arboretum
36,484 corpus weight
- arcane
arcane
36,483 corpus weight
- archiprêtre
archiprêtre
36,482 corpus weight
- arco
arco
36,481 corpus weight
- arithmétiqu…
arithmétiques
36,480 corpus weight
- Arman
Arman
36,479 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ko\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arco is uncommon French at frequency #63,520 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de arcot.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for arco in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is arco, spelled A-R-C-O.
Definition
- 1Variante de arcot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On change de tamis, on en prend un plus fin; on opère avec le second tamis comme avec le premier, avec un troisième, comme avec le second, & ainsi de suite, jusqu'à ce qu'on soit parvenu à retenir pures les parties crasseuses: c'est là ce qu'on appelle l'arco. C'est dans cet arco que l'on choisit les dragées qui serviront à aiguiser les pierres des moules…
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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