arrhes
\aʁ\
The verdict
“arrhes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,705 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,705
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Somme d’argent versée dès la signature d’un contrat à titre de gage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrhes · arrhes · French
arrhes · rank #65,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,705
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH argyle
Nearest frequency peer: argyle (-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 « arrhes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arce
arce
34,299 corpus weight
- argumentair…
argumentaires
34,298 corpus weight
- argyle
argyle
34,297 corpus weight
- arrhes
arrhes
34,296 corpus weight
- arrondit
arrondit
34,295 corpus weight
- arrosoir
arrosoir
34,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arrhes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrhes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arrhes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arrhes is uncommon French at frequency #65,705 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for arrhes in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 arrhes, spelled A-R-R-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Somme d’argent versée dès la signature d’un contrat à titre de gage.
- 2Argent qu’un acquéreur ou un locataire donne pour garantir l’exécution d’un marché verbal et qu’il perd s’il rompt le marché.
- 3Assurance, gage.
- 4Preuve, démonstration, gage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrhes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si j’annule cette réservation je perdrai les arrhes.
Eh bien ! c’est chose dite, continua le prince ; à compter de ce jour vous êtes à mon service. Prenez cette bourse, ce sont les arrhes du marché.
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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