arçon
\aʁ.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“arçon” is uncommon French (frequency #86,428 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,428
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des deux pièces de bois cintrées qui forment le corps de la selle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arcon · arçon · French
arçon · rank #86,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,428
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascendantes
Nearest frequency peer: ascendantes (+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 « arçon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- archivées
archivées
13,578 corpus weight
- argotique
argotique
13,577 corpus weight
- arrangea
arrangea
13,576 corpus weight
- arçon
arçon
13,573 corpus weight
- ascendantes
ascendantes
13,571 corpus weight
- aspirantes
aspirantes
13,569 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arçon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arçon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arçon is uncommon French at frequency #86,428 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for arçon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arçon, spelled A-R-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Une des deux pièces de bois cintrées qui forment le corps de la selle.
- 2Instrument en forme d’archet.
- 3Archet fait avec une lame d'acier et une corde à boyau, qui sert à faire mouvoir le foret pour percer des trous.
- 4Sarment de vigne que l’on courbe pour activer sa production.
- 5Signe d’alerte convenu entre voleurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arçon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se moquait de la peur de M. de Moirod, dont à chaque instant la main prudente était prête à saisir l’arçon de sa selle.
Comme on était en pays ami et par conséquent éloigné de tout danger, il avait accroché son casque à l’arçon de sa selle.
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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