ardues
\aʁ.dy\
The verdict
“ardues” is uncommon French (frequency #64,931 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,931
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de ardu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ardues · ardues · French
ardues · rank #64,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,931
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Argentière
Nearest frequency peer: Argentière (+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 « ardues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- approvision…
approvisionnent
35,073 corpus weight
- apprécierait
apprécierait
35,072 corpus weight
- ardues
ardues
35,070 corpus weight
- Argentière
Argentière
35,069 corpus weight
- Arthabaska
Arthabaska
35,068 corpus weight
- ascot
ascot
35,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ardues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ardues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.dy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ardues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ardues is uncommon French at frequency #64,931 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de ardu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ardues in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 ardues, spelled A-R-D-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de ardu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ardues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les soldats étaient considérés comme des héros et leur survie dans des circonstances plus qu'ardues était devenue légendaire.
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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