arpent
\aʁ.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“arpent” is uncommon French (frequency #93,491 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,491
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de longueur (symbole arp) valant 180 pieds ou 10 perches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arpent · arpent · French
arpent · rank #93,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,491
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Ariadne
Nearest frequency peer: Ariadne (-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 « arpent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appétissant…
appétissantes
6,512 corpus weight
- Ariadne
Ariadne
6,511 corpus weight
- arpent
arpent
6,510 corpus weight
- Arromanches
Arromanches
6,509 corpus weight
- Arvernes
Arvernes
6,508 corpus weight
- asad
asad
6,507 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arpent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arpent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arpent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arpent is uncommon French at frequency #93,491 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
arpent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arpent, spelled A-R-P-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de longueur (symbole arp) valant 180 pieds ou 10 perches.
- 2Unité de mesure de la surface d’une terre qui valait un arpent carré, soit cent perches carrées, c'est à dire 0,51 hectare.
- 3Unité de longueur valant 58,47 mètres. Unité de surface équivalant à 3418,89 m² c'est à dire 0,342 hectare.
- 4Unité de surface équivalant à 3424,77 m² c'est à dire 0,342 hectare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arpent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quatre femmes peuvent semer un arpent ou un demi-hectare chaque jour.
ARPENT, en allemand et en hollandais morgen, en italien jugero, en espagnol yugada. Mesure agraire ou de superficie. On donne aussi le nom d’arpent à l’acre de Gotha.
This word in other languages
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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