arrow
\ˈæɹ.oʊ\
The verdict
“arrow” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,743
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrow · arrow · French
arrow · rank #19,743 · 5 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,743
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aquarelle
Nearest frequency peer: aquarelle (-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 « arrow »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apps
apps
80,261 corpus weight
- aptes
aptes
80,260 corpus weight
- aquarelle
aquarelle
80,259 corpus weight
- arrow
arrow
80,258 corpus weight
- arrêtant
arrêtant
80,257 corpus weight
- atteignait
atteignait
80,255 corpus weight
What this shows « arrow » 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 | arrow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈæɹ.oʊ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrow »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around arrow (IPA \ˈæɹ.oʊ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,743 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrow, with forms such as "arorw", "arow", and "arroww". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "afro", "agro", "Aron", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is arrow, spelled A-R-R-O-W.
Definition
- 1Flèche.
- 2Flèche (symbole).
- 3Arc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arorw
- arow
- arroww
- arrwo
- rarow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrow - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arrow", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).