article
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#325
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
article is aFrenchnoun. It means: Phalange de la main ou du pied. Pronounced \aʁ.tikl\. It ranks #325 in French word frequency. Often confused with artiste and articles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | article |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.tikl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for article is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.tikl\. Corpus data places it at rank #325 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for article, with forms such as "aritcle", "arrticle", and "artcile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "artiste", "articles", "articulé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is article, spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phalange de la main ou du pied.
- 2Articulation, jointure des os.
- 3Parties des membres des insectes qui peuvent se mouvoir les unes sur les autres.
- 4Portion d’une tige ou d’un rameau comprise entre deux articulations ou nœuds.
- 5Texte qui forme une division ou subdivision d’un écrit, sous forme d'un rapport ou compte rendu sur un thème ou événement précis. Ce texte peut faire l'objet d'une publication dans un journal, une revue scientifique une revue spécialisée, des comptes rendus de conférence, voire une encyclopédie.
- 6Subdivision d'un traité, d'une loi, d'un décret ou d'un arrêté.
- 7Mot-outil permettant d’introduire un syntagme nominal et de montrer la définitude.
- 8Produit ou objet qu’un commerçant a dans son magasin.
- 9Sujet auquel est consacré une lettre, un mémoire, une dissertation, etc.
- 10Sujet, matière.
- 11Sujet, matière dont on parle.
- 12Conventions entre futurs époux.
- 13Instant critique : → voir à l’article de la mort
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aritcle,arrticle,artcile,articcle,articel,articlle,artilce,artticle,atricle,raticle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for article
Misspelling Variants of "article"
Frequency rank: #325 in French
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