arrobe
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Ancienne unité de masse utilisée dans le monde hispanique et latino-américain valant 25 livres, selon les pays entre 11,5 et 14,7 kilogrammes.
- 2Ancienne unité de volume utilisée dans le monde hispanique et latino-américain valant selon les pays de 12 à 16 litres.
- 3Caractère @ employé dans les adresses e-mail pour séparer le nom identifiant l’utilisateur de celui du gestionnaire de la messagerie.
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