argentan
\aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“argentan” is uncommon French (frequency #52,493 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,493
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alliage de nickel et de cuivre ou de zinc, dit à tort argenton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argentan · argentan · French
argentan · rank #52,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,493
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH archipels
Nearest frequency peer: archipels (-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 « argentan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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arboriculture
47,510 corpus weight
- archipels
archipels
47,509 corpus weight
- argentan
argentan
47,508 corpus weight
- argentées
argentées
47,507 corpus weight
- aslan
aslan
47,506 corpus weight
- assistances
assistances
47,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « argentan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argentan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « argentan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
argentan is uncommon French at frequency #52,493 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alliage de nickel et de cuivre ou de zinc, dit à tort argenton.".
Zero misspellings are on record for argentan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 argentan, spelled A-R-G-E-N-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Alliage de nickel et de cuivre ou de zinc, dit à tort argenton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how argentan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ouvrages en nickel allié au cuivre ou au zinc (argentan) : ce nickel contribue, dans des proportions qui varient beaucoup, à former, avec le cuivre et le zinc, des alliages désignés dans le commerce sous les noms d’argentan, melchior, maillechort, argent blanc, argent d’Allemagne ; l’argentan de belle qualité contient de 35 à 40 parties de nickel
Synonyms
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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