arroyo
\a.ʁɔ.jo\
The verdict
“arroyo” is uncommon French (frequency #59,797 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,797
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cours d’eau temporaire qui se remplit lorsqu’il pleut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arroyo · arroyo · French
arroyo · rank #59,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,797
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrosent
Nearest frequency peer: arrosent (-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 « arroyo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Arezzo
Arezzo
40,207 corpus weight
- arrachait
arrachait
40,206 corpus weight
- arrosent
arrosent
40,205 corpus weight
- arroyo
arroyo
40,204 corpus weight
- asocial
asocial
40,203 corpus weight
- aspirante
aspirante
40,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arroyo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arroyo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔ.jo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arroyo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arroyo is uncommon French at frequency #59,797 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁɔ.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cours d’eau temporaire qui se remplit lorsqu’il pleut.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for arroyo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is arroyo, spelled A-R-R-O-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Cours d’eau temporaire qui se remplit lorsqu’il pleut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arroyo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'ai conté […] le miracle de cette résistance inouïe, à un contre six, […], dans la vase, les trous perfides des arroyos, sous un ciel qui crachait des tonnes de mitraille, […].
Il avait donc sous la main une vingtaine d’hommes, bien défilés, disposant d’un admirable champ de tir, le lit même de l’arroyo, avec le gué au beau milieu.
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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