artère

\aʁ.tɛʁ\

/\aʁ.tɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“artère” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,525. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,525
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tube musculaire, élastique et contractile dans lequel le sang, projeté par les contractions du cœur, est porté dans tous les organes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-artere · artère · French

artère · rank #11,525 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,525
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appelées

Nearest frequency peer: appelées (-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 « artère »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « artère » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

artère vs autre
67% similar
artère vs avéré
33% similar
artère vs Artur
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for artère
PropertyValue
Headwordartère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.tɛʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,525
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « artère »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.artèrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « appelées » (#11,524), « attractions » (#11,526), « annonçant » (#11,523). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « artère » est au #11,525. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around artère (IPA \aʁ.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,525 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for artère, with forms such as "arrtère", "artere", and "artrèe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "autre", "avéré", "Artur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is artère, spelled A-R-T-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tube musculaire, élastique et contractile dans lequel le sang, projeté par les contractions du cœur, est porté dans tous les organes.
  2. 2
    Voies de communication et de circulation les plus fréquentées.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des infrastructures constitutives d'un tronçon de câbles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how artère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Haro sur l’huile de palme, accusée de contribuer à la déforestation et d’être nocive pour nos artères.
  2. L’artère médiane est le principal vaisseau qui alimente en sang l’avant-bras et la main lorsque le bébé se forme dans l’utérus de la mère, mais elle fait place à deux artères au cours du développement dans l’utérus, la radiale et la cubitale.

This word in other languages

artery(English)arteria(Español)Arterie(Deutsch)artéria(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arrtère
  • artere
  • artrèe
  • arttère
  • artèer
  • artèrre
  • arètre
  • atrère
  • ratère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of artère - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

arrtère1artere1artrèe2arttère1artèer2artèrre1arètre2atrère2
Edit distance from "artère"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "artère"?
"artère" is spelled A-R-T-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.tɛʁ\.
What does "artère" mean?
As a noun, "artère" means: Tube musculaire, élastique et contractile dans lequel le sang, projeté par les contractions du cœur, est porté dans tous les organes.
What words are commonly confused with "artère"?
"artère" is commonly confused with "autre", "avéré", "Artur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "artère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "artère" is \aʁ.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "artère" come from?
"artère" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "artère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aurore#11,527agneau#11,516corpus#11,554Dennis#11,561

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

coquille9 variantsreliés9 variantsfictif9 variantsflipper9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list