arpenter
\aʁ.pɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“arpenter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,176
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mesurer des terres par toute mesure agraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arpenter · arpenter · French
arpenter · rank #37,176 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,176
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arms
Nearest frequency peer: arms (-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 « arpenter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- appliques
appliques
62,828 corpus weight
- AQMI
AQMI
62,827 corpus weight
- arms
arms
62,826 corpus weight
- arpenter
arpenter
62,825 corpus weight
- arrachant
arrachant
62,824 corpus weight
- articulés
articulés
62,822 corpus weight
What this shows « arpenter » 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 | arpenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \aʁ.pɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arpenter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around arpenter (IPA \aʁ.pɑ̃.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,176 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for arpenter, with forms such as "aprenter", "arepnter", and "arpenetr". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêter", "arpents", "argenté", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is arpenter, spelled A-R-P-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mesurer des terres par toute mesure agraire.
- 2Parcourir à pied un espace, souvent avec vitesse et à grands pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arpenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arpenter le terrain d’un village.
Faire arpenter une pièce de terre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprenter
- arepnter
- arpenetr
- arpennter
- arpenterr
- arpentre
- arpentter
- arpetner
- arpneter
- arppenter
- arrpenter
- rapenter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arpenter - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arpenter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).