arpents
\aʁ.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“arpents” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,128
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arpent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arpents · arpents · French
arpents · rank #41,128 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,128
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH articulent
Nearest frequency peer: articulent (+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 « arpents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apposée
apposée
58,877 corpus weight
- arachides
arachides
58,876 corpus weight
- arborent
arborent
58,875 corpus weight
- arpents
arpents
58,873 corpus weight
- articulent
articulent
58,872 corpus weight
- assistaient
assistaient
58,870 corpus weight
What this shows « arpents » 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 | arpents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arpents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around arpents (IPA \aʁ.pɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,128 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de arpent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for arpents, with forms such as "arepnts", "arpennts", and "arpenst". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêts", "aryens", "aspects", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is arpents, spelled A-R-P-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arpent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arpents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne s’agissait de rien moins que d’appliquer des portes de flot et d’ebbe à deux ponts, de dessécher un kilomètre de tangues sur une largeur de trois ou quatre cents arpents, d’y creuser des canaux et d’y pratiquer des chemins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arepnts
- arpennts
- arpenst
- arpentss
- arpentts
- arpetns
- arpnets
- arppents
- arrpents
- rapents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arpents - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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