argus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,550
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
argus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Publication donnant une cote des voitures en fonction de leur âge et modèle. Pronounced \aʁ.ɡys\. Often confused with ars and aus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ɡys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for argus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.ɡys\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,550 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 argus, with forms such as "agrus", "arggus", and "argsu". 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, "ars", "aus", "aru", 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 argus, spelled A-R-G-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Publication donnant une cote des voitures en fonction de leur âge et modèle.
- 2(Par extension) Publication similaire dans d’autres domaines.
- 3Nom de plusieurs espèces d’animaux offrant des taches que l’on a comparées à des yeux.
- 4Nom donné à deux genres monospécifiques d'oiseaux de l’ordre des galliformes et de la famille des phasianidés, habitant les forêts matures de l'Indochine et de l'Indonésie, à tête dénudée et à cris extrêmement perçants, dont le mâle possède deux très longues rectrices caudales ainsi que de très longues rémiges ocellées à la façon des paons, et qu’il déploie lors d'une pariade spectaculaire.
- 5Surveillant, espion.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agrus,arggus,argsu,arguss,arrgus,arugs,ragus
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Misspelling Variants of "argus"
Frequency rank: #33,550 in French
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