argutie
\aʁ.ɡy.si\
The verdict
“argutie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raisonnement subtil et vainement minutieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argutie · argutie · French
argutie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | argutie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ɡy.si\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « argutie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
argutie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ɡy.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raisonnement subtil et vainement minutieux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for argutie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is argutie, spelled A-R-G-U-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Raisonnement subtil et vainement minutieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how argutie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À quoi rêvais-je ? Ce n’était certainement pas à quelque argutie théologique ; non, c’était à cette lutte éternelle du bien et du mal, qui tiraille l’homme depuis le jour du péché.
Sans cesse, il discutait avec les maîtres et les garçons d'hôtel, avec les voituriers, avec les vendeurs de n'importe quoi, et quand il avait, à force d'arguties, obtenu un rabais quelconque, il disait à Jeanne en se frottant les mains: « Je n'aime pas être volé. »
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.