Arnhem
\aʁn.ɛm\
The verdict
“Arnhem” is uncommon French (frequency #62,053 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville des Pays-Bas située dans la province de Gueldre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arnhem · Arnhem · French
Arnhem · rank #62,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,053
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Armande
Nearest frequency peer: Armande (-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 « Arnhem »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- archidiocèse
archidiocèse
37,950 corpus weight
- Armande
Armande
37,949 corpus weight
- Arnhem
Arnhem
37,948 corpus weight
- articulant
articulant
37,947 corpus weight
- associa
associa
37,946 corpus weight
- assumons
assumons
37,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Arnhem » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arnhem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁn.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Arnhem » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Arnhem is uncommon French at frequency #62,053 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \aʁn.ɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune et ville des Pays-Bas située dans la province de Gueldre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Arnhem, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Arnhem, spelled A-R-N-H-E-M.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville des Pays-Bas située dans la province de Gueldre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Arnhem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arnhem est une très jolie ville d’environ soixante mille habitants, située au nord de Nimègue, sur le bras supérieur du bas-Rhin. C’était là que se retiraient avant la guerre et depuis longtemps les commerçants hollandais qui avaient fait fortune aux Indes.
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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