arrachement
\a.ʁaʃ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“arrachement” is uncommon French (frequency #58,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,416
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’arracher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrachement · arrachement · French
arrachement · rank #58,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,416
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argenton
Nearest frequency peer: argenton (-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 « arrachement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- applied
applied
41,589 corpus weight
- arceaux
arceaux
41,588 corpus weight
- argenton
argenton
41,586 corpus weight
- arrachement
arrachement
41,585 corpus weight
- arroseur
arroseur
41,584 corpus weight
- assessment
assessment
41,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arrachement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrachement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁaʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arrachement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arrachement is uncommon French at frequency #58,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁaʃ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
arrachement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 arrachement, spelled A-R-R-A-C-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action d’arracher.
- 2Pierres enlevées à un mur, ou à l'inverse laissées en saillie pour emboîter dans les vides les pierres d’une construction nouvelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrachement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] : il y a plus, c’est que les sarclages et l’arrachement ont nettoyé le sol de toutes les plantes étrangères, […].
Pendant que dans la grande cour de l'hôtel de la Poste on attelait les chevaux de la lourde diligence et qu'on chargeait les colis, les adieux vingt fois répétés étaient de part et d'autre comme une série d’arrachements.
Synonyms
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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