arçon
\aʁ.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“arçon” is uncommon French (frequency #86,428 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,428
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Une des deux pièces de bois cintrées qui forment le corps de la selle.
| 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) |
Where “arçon” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
arçon is uncommon French at frequency #86,428 among 424,905 “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.
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 “arçon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-R-Ç-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.