artichaut

\aʁ.ti.ʃo\

/\aʁ.ti.ʃo\/ noun

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The verdict

“artichaut” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,744
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Astéracées qui porte une inflorescence à bractées piquantes se recouvrant les unes les autres et dont le réceptacle charnu est comestible.

Corpus desk

Index FR-artichaut · artichaut · French

artichaut · rank #42,744 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #42,744
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH approprient

Nearest frequency peer: approprient (-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 « artichaut »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « artichaut » 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).

artichaut vs artichauts
90% similar

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

Key facts for artichaut
PropertyValue
Headwordartichaut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.ti.ʃo\
Letters9
Frequency rank#42,744
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « artichaut »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).artichautse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « approprient » (#42,743), « assault » (#42,745), « Asselin » (#42,746). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « artichaut » est au #42,744. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around artichaut (IPA \aʁ.ti.ʃo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,744 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for artichaut, with forms such as "aritchaut", "arrtichaut", and "artcihaut". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "artichauts", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is artichaut, spelled A-R-T-I-C-H-A-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante de la famille des Astéracées qui porte une inflorescence à bractées piquantes se recouvrant les unes les autres et dont le réceptacle charnu est comestible.
  2. 2
    Capitule de la plante, utilisé crue ou cuite comme légume.
  3. 3
    Pièce de ferronnerie, hérissée de plusieurs pointes et de crocs et dont on garnit une clôture pour empêcher de passer ou d’escalader.
  4. 4
    Grande bardane (Arctium lappa L.).
  5. 5
    Portefeuille, par analogie avec les nombreuses feuilles du capitule.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il avait aussi appris à manier la pelle, la fourche à dents plates, le plantoir, le sarcloir, à repiquer lui-même ses frêles laitues, voire à « forcir » la tête d’un artichaut en en transperçant la tige d’une chevillette.
  2. Entre Saint-Pol-de-Léon et Roscoff, je fais route parmi d'immenses plantations d’artichauts et de choux-fleurs, prosaïquement accroupies entre leurs murets de pierres sèches.

This word in other languages

artichoke(English)alcachofa(Español)Artischocke(Deutsch)alcachofra(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aritchaut
  • arrtichaut
  • artcihaut
  • articahut
  • articchaut
  • artichatu
  • artichautt
  • artichhaut
  • artichuat
  • artihcaut
  • arttichaut
  • atrichaut
  • ratichaut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

aritchaut2arrtichaut1artcihaut2articahut2articchaut1artichatu2artichautt1artichhaut1
Edit distance from "artichaut"

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 "artichaut"?
"artichaut" is spelled A-R-T-I-C-H-A-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.ti.ʃo\.
What does "artichaut" mean?
As a noun, "artichaut" means: Plante de la famille des Astéracées qui porte une inflorescence à bractées piquantes se recouvrant les unes les autres et dont le réceptacle charnu est comestible.
What words are commonly confused with "artichaut"?
"artichaut" is commonly confused with "artichauts". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "artichaut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "artichaut" is \aʁ.ti.ʃo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "artichaut" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

attaquera#42,751annonçons#42,735Auxerrois#42,755analyseur#42,732

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

attaquaient13 variantsaccablante13 variantsabstract13 variantsévocateur13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list