ark
\aʁk\
The verdict
“ark” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,421) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,421
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjection exprimant le dégoût devant une chose ou une idée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ark · ark · French
ark · rank #34,421 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,421
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argileux
Nearest frequency peer: argileux (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ark »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ardue
ardue
65,583 corpus weight
- arg
arg
65,582 corpus weight
- argileux
argileux
65,581 corpus weight
- ark
ark
65,580 corpus weight
- Arno
Arno
65,579 corpus weight
- arrogants
arrogants
65,578 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ark » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ark |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \aʁk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ark »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ark is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \aʁk\. Frequency #34,421 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Interjection exprimant le dégoût devant une chose ou une idée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ark, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ark, spelled A-R-K.
Definition
- 1Interjection exprimant le dégoût devant une chose ou une idée.
Synonyms
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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