ardoise
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,072
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
ardoise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roche schisteuse de couleur foncée qui se délite en feuilles. Pronounced \aʁ.dwaz\. Often confused with Artois and arrose.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ardoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.dwaz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ardoise is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.dwaz\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,072 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ardoise, with forms such as "adroise", "arddoise", and "ardiose". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Artois", "arrose", "armoire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ardoise, spelled A-R-D-O-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roche schisteuse de couleur foncée qui se délite en feuilles.
- 2Morceau de cette roche taillée servant à couvrir les toits.
- 3À l'origine, fine plaque de cette roche généralement encadrée de bois, avec une face quadrillée et qui sert à écrire, généralement avec une craie ou un crayon d’ardoise. Plus tard la pierre a été remplacée par un carton très dur peint en noir mat, puis par les ardoises magiques et les ardoises blanches.
- 4Compte ouvert chez un marchand, ainsi dit parce que ce compte s'écrivait sur une ardoise. Dette impayée, notamment dans un bar ou un restaurant.
- 5Tablette tactile.
- 6Plaque sous le tapis d'une table de billard.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adroise,arddoise,ardiose,ardoies,ardoisse,ardosie,arodise,arrdoise,radoise
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Misspelling Variants of "ardoise"
Frequency rank: #17,072 in French
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