arpenteur
\aʁ.pɑ̃.tœʁ\
The verdict
“arpenteur” is uncommon French (frequency #51,281 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,281
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui arpente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arpenteur · arpenteur · French
arpenteur · rank #51,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,281
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Assia
Nearest frequency peer: Assia (+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 « arpenteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aristophane
Aristophane
48,724 corpus weight
- Armorique
Armorique
48,723 corpus weight
- arpenteur
arpenteur
48,720 corpus weight
- Assia
Assia
48,718 corpus weight
- assoupi
assoupi
48,717 corpus weight
- aster
aster
48,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arpenteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arpenteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.pɑ̃.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arpenteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arpenteur is uncommon French at frequency #51,281 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.pɑ̃.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui arpente.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arpenteur, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arpenteur, spelled A-R-P-E-N-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui arpente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arpenteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une chenille arpenteuse.
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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