Argentière
\aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Argentière” is uncommon French (frequency #64,932 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,932
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitante d’Argentières, commune française située dans le département de la Seine-et-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argentiere · Argentière · French
Argentière · rank #64,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ardues
Nearest frequency peer: ardues (-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 « Argentière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- ascète
ascète
35,066 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Argentière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Argentière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Argentière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Argentière is uncommon French at frequency #64,932 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitante d’Argentières, commune française située dans le département de la Seine-et-Marne.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Argentière in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Argentière, spelled A-R-G-E-N-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Habitante d’Argentières, commune française située dans le département de la Seine-et-Marne.
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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