Arlene

name

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The verdict

“Arlene” is uncommon French (frequency #72,075 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,075
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arlene · Arlene · French

Arlene · rank #72,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,075
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aristo

Nearest frequency peer: aristo (-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 « Arlene »

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 « Arlene » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Arlene
PropertyValue
HeadwordArlene
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#72,075
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Arlene » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Arlenetombe 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: « aristo » (#72,074), « armagnacs » (#72,076), « aridité » (#72,073). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Arlene » est au #72,075. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Arlene is uncommon French at frequency #72,075 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Arlene doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Arlene, spelled A-R-L-E-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les Razmoket, ou Rugrats dans son titre original, ont été créés en 1991 par Arlene Klasky et Gabor Csupo pour Nickelodeon.

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 "Arlene"?
"Arlene" is spelled A-R-L-E-N-E.
What does "Arlene" mean?
As a proper noun, "Arlene" means: Prénom féminin.
What language does "Arlene" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aristo#72,074animus#72,063Bacall#72,092alleud#72,056

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list