ARRCO
\aʁ.ko\
The verdict
“ARRCO” is uncommon French (frequency #63,526 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Régime de retraite complémentaire de tous les salariés du secteur privé, quel que soit leur statut (cadre, intermittent, apprenti…) ou la nature et la durée de leur contrat de travail (CDD, CDI…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrco · ARRCO · French
ARRCO · rank #63,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,526
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arpenté
Nearest frequency peer: arpenté (-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 « ARRCO »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Arman
Arman
36,479 corpus weight
- Arnoult
Arnoult
36,478 corpus weight
- Arpajon
Arpajon
36,477 corpus weight
- arpenté
arpenté
36,476 corpus weight
- ARRCO
ARRCO
36,475 corpus weight
- arvor
arvor
36,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ARRCO » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ARRCO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ARRCO » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ARRCO is uncommon French at frequency #63,526 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Régime de retraite complémentaire de tous les salariés du secteur privé, quel que soit leur statut (cadre, intermittent, apprenti…) ou la nature et la durée de leur contrat de travail (CDD, CDI…).".
No misspelling variants are generated for ARRCO in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ARRCO, spelled A-R-R-C-O.
Definition
- 1Régime de retraite complémentaire de tous les salariés du secteur privé, quel que soit leur statut (cadre, intermittent, apprenti…) ou la nature et la durée de leur contrat de travail (CDD, CDI…).
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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