aridité

\a.ʁi.di.te\

/\a.ʁi.di.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“aridité” is uncommon French (frequency #72,073 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,073
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est aride.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aridite · aridité · French

aridité · rank #72,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,073
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH arianisme

Nearest frequency peer: arianisme (-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 « aridité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aridité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aridité
PropertyValue
Headwordaridité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁi.di.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#72,073
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aridité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ariditétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « arianisme » (#72,072), « aristo » (#72,074), « aqui » (#72,071). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aridité » est au #72,073. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aridité is uncommon French at frequency #72,073 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁi.di.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for aridité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aridité, spelled A-R-I-D-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de ce qui est aride.
  2. 2
    État de ce qui est stérile, au propre et au figuré.
  3. 3
    État d’une âme qui ne sent pas de consolation dans les exercices de piété.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aridité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce ne sont plus les plaines du Sahara, comme on serait tenté de le croire, plaines sablonneuses, dépourvues de végétation, que leur aridité rend à peu près infranchissables.
  2. L’aridité d’un terroir. L’aridité de la saison. L’aridité de l’herbe brûlée par le soleil.

This word in other languages

aridity(English)aridez(Español)Wasserknappheit(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aridité"?
"aridité" is spelled A-R-I-D-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁi.di.te\.
What does "aridité" mean?
As a noun, "aridité" means: État de ce qui est aride.
How do you pronounce "aridité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aridité" is \a.ʁi.di.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aridité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aridité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arpèges#72,078arrivai#72,081Baghdad#72,095baisait#72,097

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list