argue
\aʁɡ\
The verdict
“argue” is uncommon French (frequency #54,405 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,405
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atelier de tireur d’or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argue · argue · French
argue · rank #54,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,405
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argentines
Nearest frequency peer: argentines (-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 « argue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- archaïsme
archaïsme
45,599 corpus weight
- Archiv
Archiv
45,598 corpus weight
- argentines
argentines
45,597 corpus weight
- argue
argue
45,596 corpus weight
- arméniennes
arméniennes
45,595 corpus weight
- aryen
aryen
45,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « argue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « argue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
argue is uncommon French at frequency #54,405 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for argue in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is argue, spelled A-R-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Atelier de tireur d’or.
- 2Machine utilisée par les fileurs ou tireurs d'or, qui sert à étirer et à rendre le plus rond possible l'or précédemment passé à l'enclume, en le forçant à traverser une filière. ^([1])
- 3Bureau pour la perception des droits sur l’or en lingots.
- 4Navire de mer.
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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