arpentage
\aʁ.pɑ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“arpentage” is uncommon French (frequency #61,310 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,310
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’arpenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arpentage · arpentage · French
arpentage · rank #61,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,310
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arditi
Nearest frequency peer: arditi (-2 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 « arpentage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arbitrales
arbitrales
38,695 corpus weight
- arborescence
arborescence
38,694 corpus weight
- arditi
arditi
38,693 corpus weight
- arpentage
arpentage
38,691 corpus weight
- aspartame
aspartame
38,688 corpus weight
- aspirée
aspirée
38,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arpentage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arpentage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.pɑ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arpentage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arpentage is uncommon French at frequency #61,310 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.pɑ̃.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
arpentage has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 arpentage, spelled A-R-P-E-N-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action d’arpenter.
- 2Science de mesurer les terres.
- 3Mode de lecture partagée d'un livre où celui-ci est déchiré pour former autant de sous-parties que de personnes concernées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arpentage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois la triangulation, l’arpentage et la levée des plans achevés, chaque propriété est cadastrée, c'est-à-dire que les terres qui la composent sont classées d'après leur qualité, ce qui n'est pas exempt de difficultés sérieuses.
On comprend mieux l'acharnement avec lequel Sʳ Gallois voulait écarter les prétentions de la ville, si on sait qu'il croyait, en se référant à un arpentage effectué en 1629, que ce Bürgerwald englobait un tiers de la forêt indivise.
Synonyms
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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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