arroba
\a.ʁɔ.ba\
The verdict
“arroba” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de arrobe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arroba · arroba · French
arroba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arroba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔ.ba\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arroba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arroba is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁɔ.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de arrobe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for arroba, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arroba, spelled A-R-R-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de arrobe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arroba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ARROBA, Arrobe, Arrove. Poids de commerce usité en Espagne, en Portugal et dans les anciennes possessions espagnoles et portugaises de l’Amérique et des Indes orientales. L’arroba représente le ¼ du quintal. […] L’arroba espagnole se compte généralement pour 11 ½ kilogrammes exactement (voyez Livre).
ARROBA, Cantaro, Cantara. Mesure de capacité pour liquides, usitée en Espagne. Voyez pour plus de détails le mot Cantara.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.