Arlon
\aʁ.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“Arlon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,551
- 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 de la province de Luxembourg de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arlon · Arlon · French
Arlon · rank #33,551 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,551
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argus
Nearest frequency peer: argus (-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 « Arlon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ardents
ardents
66,453 corpus weight
- Argos
Argos
66,452 corpus weight
- argus
argus
66,451 corpus weight
- Arlon
Arlon
66,450 corpus weight
- arrangent
arrangent
66,449 corpus weight
- assidu
assidu
66,448 corpus weight
What this shows « Arlon » 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 | Arlon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arlon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Arlon (IPA \aʁ.lɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,551 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune de la province de Luxembourg de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arlon, with forms such as "alron", "arllon", and "arlno". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ARN", "Aron", "avon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Arlon, spelled A-R-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province de Luxembourg de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arlon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De 1557 à 1587, Materne Cholinus, d’Arlon, fait rouler ses presses à Cologne ; il devient membre du Sénat de la ville et acquiert une grande fortune.
Plus tard, nommé évêque de Tours, Martin eut à traverser nos régions, c’était en l’année 385 ; de Tours, il se rendait à Trêves à la cour de l’Empereur Maxime pour demander la grâce de Priscillianistes condamnés à mort, il prit naturellement la voie de Reims à Trêves passant par Ville-sur-Retourne, Pont-à-Bar, Tannay, Mouzon, Yvois, Arlon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alron
- arllon
- arlno
- arlonn
- aroln
- arrlon
- ralon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arlon - 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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