arrosoir
\a.ʁɔ.zwaʁ\
The verdict
“arrosoir” is an uncommon French word, ranked #65,707 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,707
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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).
| 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) |
Where “arrosoir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arrosoir is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁɔ.zwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #65,707 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 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.
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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Using “arrosoir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-R-R-O-S-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ʁɔ.zwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.