arrondissement
\a.ʁɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“arrondissement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,981
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle on arrondit ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrondissement · arrondissement · French
arrondissement · rank #2,981 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,981
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH armées
Nearest frequency peer: armées (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrondissement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alimentation
alimentation
97,023 corpus weight
- apparition
apparition
97,022 corpus weight
- armées
armées
97,021 corpus weight
- arrondissem…
arrondissement
97,020 corpus weight
- artistique
artistique
97,019 corpus weight
- ballon
ballon
97,018 corpus weight
What this shows « arrondissement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrondissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #2,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrondissement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around arrondissement (IPA \a.ʁɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,981 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrondissement, with forms such as "arondissement", "arorndissement", and "arrnodissement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "arrondissements", "agrandissement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arrondissement, spelled A-R-R-O-N-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle on arrondit ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Circonscription administrative d’un département.
- 3Division d’une municipalité, d’une grande commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrondissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il alléguerait la nécessité de l’arrondissement des frontières, comme si cette doctrine, une fois admise, ne bannissait pas de la terre tout repos et toute équité; car c'est toujours en dehors qu'un gouvernement veut arrondir ses frontières. Aucun n'a sacrifié, que l'on sache, une portion de son territoire pour donner au reste une plus grande régularité g…
À titre de règle générale en statistiques, il est préférable de conserver le nombre maximal de décimales que vous pouvez lorsque vous calculez ou lorsque vous utilisez des formules, etc., de façon à minimiser les erreurs qui pourraient être dues à l’arrondissement lors des calculs.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arondissement
- arorndissement
- arrnodissement
- arrodnissement
- arronddissement
- arrondisement
- arrondisesment
- arrondisseemnt
- arrondissemennt
- arrondissementt
- arrondissemetn
- arrondissemment
- arrondissemnet
- arrondissmeent
- arrondsisement
- arronidssement
- arronndissement
- rarondissement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrondissement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).