arêtes
\a.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“arêtes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,766
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aretes · arêtes · French
arêtes · rank #23,766 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,766
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrivèrent
Nearest frequency peer: arrivèrent (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arêtes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- area
area
76,237 corpus weight
- arrivèrent
arrivèrent
76,236 corpus weight
- arêtes
arêtes
76,235 corpus weight
- assemblés
assemblés
76,234 corpus weight
- atmosphériq…
atmosphériques
76,233 corpus weight
- attelage
attelage
76,232 corpus weight
What this shows « arêtes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arêtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arêtes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around arêtes (IPA \a.ʁɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,766 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de arête.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for arêtes, with forms such as "aretes", "artêes", and "arêets". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arts", "arte", "armés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 arêtes, spelled A-R-Ê-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arêtes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tranches auront leur centre de gravité sur une ligne droite parallèle aux arêtes du prisme, et le centre du prisme sera sur le milieu de cette droite. Si l’on suppose que les tranches glissent parallèlement les unes sur les autres, de manière que les centres des tranches restent toujours en ligne droite, on va former un volume échelonné dont le centre…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aretes
- artêes
- arêets
- arêtess
- arêtse
- arêttes
- aêrtes
- raêtes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arêtes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arêtes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).