arquée

\aʁ.ke\

/\aʁ.ke\/ adj

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The verdict

“arquée” is uncommon French (frequency #99,877 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,877
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de arqué.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arquee · arquée · French

arquée · rank #99,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,877
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aristos

Nearest frequency peer: aristos (-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 « arquée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arquée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for arquée
PropertyValue
Headwordarquée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aʁ.ke\
Letters6
Frequency rank#99,877
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « arquée » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).arquéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « aristos » (#99,876), « arriba » (#99,878), « ardon » (#99,875). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « arquée » est au #99,877. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

arquée is uncommon French at frequency #99,877 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de arqué.".

No misspelling variants are generated for arquée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arquée, spelled A-R-Q-U-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de arqué.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how arquée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès la Saint-Nicolas, on aperçut des loups. Pas les fauves habituels des hivers rigoureux, qui trottinaient vers nous des forêts morvandiaudes, le poil roussâtre, l’échine arquée, craintifs de l’homme.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arquée"?
"arquée" is spelled A-R-Q-U-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.ke\.
What does "arquée" mean?
As an adjective, "arquée" means: Féminin singulier de arqué.
How do you pronounce "arquée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arquée" is \aʁ.ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arquée" come from?
"arquée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arquée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arriba#99,878Arrien#99,879angely#99,858ballin#99,899

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list