arquebuse
\aʁ.kə.byz\
The verdict
“arquebuse” is uncommon French (frequency #70,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,394
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne arme à feu qu’on faisait partir au moyen d’une mèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arquebuse · arquebuse · French
arquebuse · rank #70,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,394
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH armorial
Nearest frequency peer: armorial (-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 « arquebuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arion
arion
29,609 corpus weight
- armorial
armorial
29,608 corpus weight
- arquebuse
arquebuse
29,607 corpus weight
- arroge
arroge
29,606 corpus weight
- arrêteraient
arrêteraient
29,605 corpus weight
- aspe
aspe
29,604 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arquebuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arquebuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.kə.byz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arquebuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arquebuse is uncommon French at frequency #70,394 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.kə.byz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for arquebuse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 arquebuse, spelled A-R-Q-U-E-B-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne arme à feu qu’on faisait partir au moyen d’une mèche.
- 2Boisson alcoolisée préparée par macération et distillation de plantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arquebuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Come je les veis esbranler pour tirer sur nous, je couchay mon arquebuse en jouë, visay droit à un des trois chefs, & de ce coup il en tomba deux par terre, & un de leurs compagnons qui fut blessé, qui quelque temps apres en mourut.
Ce qu’il voit encore, ce sont des soudards qui, […], criblent de coups d’arquebuse un oiseau de bois fiché à la pointe d’un mai.
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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