arrosage

/\a.ʁo.zaʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#24,480

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

arrosage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’arroser par des moyens artificiels. Pronounced \a.ʁo.zaʒ\. Often confused with arrose and arrosée.

Key facts for arrosage
PropertyValue
Headwordarrosage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁo.zaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#24,480
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for arrosage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁo.zaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,480 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for arrosage, with forms such as "arorsage", "arosage", and "arroasge". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "arrose", "arrosée", "arrivage", and more, 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 arrosage, spelled A-R-R-O-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’arroser par des moyens artificiels.
  2. 2
    Taxe ou redevance payée autrefois, pour avoir l'eau dans les prés, les jardins, pour l'irrigation.
  3. 3
    Bombardement intense.
  4. 4
    Envoi d’un même courriel à un très grand nombre de destinataires au risque de les importuner (emailing voire spamming).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arorsage,arosage,arroasge,arrosaeg,arrosagge,arrosgae,arrossage,arrsoage,rarosage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arrosage

Misspelling Variants of "arrosage"

arorsage8arosage7arroasge8arrosaeg8arrosagge9arrosgae8arrossage9arrsoage8
Misspelling Variants of "arrosage"

Frequency rank: #24,480 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arrosage"?
"arrosage" is spelled A-R-R-O-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁo.zaʒ\.
What does "arrosage" mean?
As a noun, "arrosage" means: Action d’arroser par des moyens artificiels.
What words are commonly confused with "arrosage"?
"arrosage" is commonly confused with "arrose", "arrosée", "arrivage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "arrosage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arrosage" is \a.ʁo.zaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arrosage" come from?
"arrosage" 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.