arrosoir
\a.ʁɔ.zwaʁ\
The verdict
“arrosoir” is uncommon French (frequency #65,707 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,707
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil utilisé pour l’arrosage et qui se compose d’un récipient muni d'une anse et d’un long col (ou queue) qui peut être terminé par une plaque percée de petits trous (pomme).
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrosoir · arrosoir · French
arrosoir · rank #65,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,707
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrondit
Nearest frequency peer: arrondit (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « arrosoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- argyle
argyle
34,297 corpus weight
- arrhes
arrhes
34,296 corpus weight
- arrondit
arrondit
34,295 corpus weight
- arrosoir
arrosoir
34,294 corpus weight
- asphyxiés
asphyxiés
34,293 corpus weight
- aspi
aspi
34,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arrosoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrosoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔ.zwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arrosoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arrosoir is uncommon French at frequency #65,707 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁɔ.zwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arrosoir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is arrosoir, spelled A-R-R-O-S-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Outil utilisé pour l’arrosage et qui se compose d’un récipient muni d'une anse et d’un long col (ou queue) qui peut être terminé par une plaque percée de petits trous (pomme).
- 2Contenu d’un arrosoir (sens 1).
- 3Sonde perforée pour effectuer des lavages de la région prostatique.
- 4Mollusque acéphale (Aspergillum) dont la coquille évoque une pomme d’arrosoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrosoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, au moment dont nous parlons, il y avait seize ans que le terrain de La Pinède n’avait senti des bras ni bu l’eau bienfaisante d’un arrosoir.
— Je n’ai rien fait. Pas un mètre de tuyau. Pas même un arrosoir : rien ! répétait Mitoine.
This word in other languages
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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