arrogance

/\a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,734

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

arrogance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attitude hautaine et présomptueuse. Pronounced \a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃s\. Often confused with arrogant and arrogante.

Key facts for arrogance
PropertyValue
Headwordarrogance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#13,734
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of arrogance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for arrogance is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,734 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Attitude hautaine et présomptueuse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for arrogance, with forms such as "arogance", "arorgance", and "arrgoance". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "arrogant", "arrogante", "arrogants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 arrogance, spelled A-R-R-O-G-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attitude hautaine et présomptueuse.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arogance,arorgance,arrgoance,arroagnce,arrogacne,arrogancce,arroganec,arrogannce,arroggance,arrognace,rarogance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arrogance

Misspelling Variants of "arrogance"

arogance8arorgance9arrgoance9arroagnce9arrogacne9arrogancce10arroganec9arrogannce10
Misspelling Variants of "arrogance"

Frequency rank: #13,734 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arrogance"?
"arrogance" is spelled A-R-R-O-G-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃s\.
What does "arrogance" mean?
As a noun, "arrogance" means: Attitude hautaine et présomptueuse.
What words are commonly confused with "arrogance"?
"arrogance" is commonly confused with "arrogant", "arrogante", "arrogants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "arrogance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arrogance" is \a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arrogance" come from?
"arrogance" 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.