arête
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,875
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
arête is aFrenchnoun. It means: Os long, mince et pointu qui se trouve dans la chair de certains poissons. Pronounced \a.ʁɛt\. Often confused with Art and arts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arête is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,875 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for arête, with forms such as "arete", "arrête", and "artêe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Art", "arts", "armé", 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 arête, spelled A-R-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Os long, mince et pointu qui se trouve dans la chair de certains poissons.
- 2Squelette entier du poisson.
- 3Barbes qui accompagnent l’épi de certaines graminées, telles que l’orge, le seigle, etc., et en général tout filet sec, grêle et plus ou moins raide qui ressemble aux barbes des graminées. Fil raide attaché au sommet ou sur le dos d’un organe d’une plante.
- 4Angle saillant formé par la rencontre et la jonction de deux surfaces d’une pierre, d’une pièce de bois ou de toute autre matière.
- 5Ligne formée par la réunion de deux surfaces inclinées l’une sur l’autre.
- 6Ligne courbe ou brisée qui sépare les deux versants d’une chaîne de montagnes.
- 7Arc d’un graphe non orienté.
- 8Dans un arbre binaire, représentation d’un lien, sous forme de droite, entre deux sommets.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arete,arrête,artêe,arêet,arêtte,aêrte,raête
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arête
Misspelling Variants of "arête"
Frequency rank: #17,875 in French
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