arduosité
\aʁ.dɥɔ.zi.te\
The verdict
“arduosité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chose ardue, difficile à faire ou à concevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arduosite · arduosité · French
arduosité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arduosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.dɥɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
arduosité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.dɥɔ.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for arduosité in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arduosité, spelled A-R-D-U-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Chose ardue, difficile à faire ou à concevoir.
- 2Qualité de ce qui est ardu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arduosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceux qui croiraient l’esprit de la nation française incompatible avec les arduosités de la plus subtile dialectique, auraient contre eux l’histoire de la philosophie pendant les cinq siècles qui suivirent le dixième. (VILLERS, Kant, p. 131.)
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.