arrobe

/\a.ʁɔb\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

arrobe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne unité de masse utilisée dans le monde hispanique et latino-américain valant 25 livres, selon les pays entre 11,5 et 14,7 kilogrammes. Pronounced \a.ʁɔb\.

Key facts for arrobe
PropertyValue
Headwordarrobe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁɔb\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

arrobe is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for arrobe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁɔb\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for arrobe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is arrobe, spelled A-R-R-O-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne unité de masse utilisée dans le monde hispanique et latino-américain valant 25 livres, selon les pays entre 11,5 et 14,7 kilogrammes.
  2. 2
    Ancienne unité de volume utilisée dans le monde hispanique et latino-américain valant selon les pays de 12 à 16 litres.
  3. 3
    Caractère @ employé dans les adresses e-mail pour séparer le nom identifiant l’utilisateur de celui du gestionnaire de la messagerie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arrobe"?
"arrobe" is spelled A-R-R-O-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁɔb\.
What does "arrobe" mean?
As a noun, "arrobe" means: Ancienne unité de masse utilisée dans le monde hispanique et latino-américain valant 25 livres, selon les pays entre 11,5 et 14,7 kilogrammes.
How do you pronounce "arrobe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arrobe" is \a.ʁɔb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arrobe" come from?
"arrobe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.