Arles
\aʁl\
The verdict
“Arles” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,912
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arles · Arles · French
Arles · rank #11,912 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,912
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprendra
Nearest frequency peer: apprendra (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- antérieures
antérieures
88,092 corpus weight
- apportées
apportées
88,091 corpus weight
- apprendra
apprendra
88,090 corpus weight
- Arles
Arles
88,089 corpus weight
- arrivez
arrivez
88,088 corpus weight
- attrait
attrait
88,087 corpus weight
What this shows « Arles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Arles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Arles (IPA \aʁl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,912 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arles, with forms such as "alres", "arels", and "arless". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ars", "arts", "armé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Arles, spelled A-R-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
- 2Ancien royaume dont la ville principale était Arles.
- 3Canton français, situé dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Arles, dit-il. Connaissez-vous Arles ? C’est la pure beauté ! J’ai vu dans le cloître de Saint-Trophime des colombes se poser sur les épaules des statues, et j’ai vu les petits lézards gris se chauffer au soleil sur les sarcophages des Aliscamps. Les tombes sont maintenant rangées des deux côtés du chemin qui mène à l’église. Elles sont en forme de cuve…
Le maire d’Arles, M. Granaud, promit que la ville adopterait le village d’Herpy. Le conseil municipal a ouvert une souscription et des dons nombreux en nature viendront s’ajouter aux dons en argent. Que la ville d’Arles soit louée et remerciée pour son beau geste qui a été au cœur de nos malheureux compatriotes, si terriblement éprouvés par la guerre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alres
- arels
- arless
- arlles
- arlse
- arrles
- rales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).