articles

/\aʁ.tikl\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#864

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

articles is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de article. Pronounced \aʁ.tikl\. It ranks #864 in French word frequency. Often confused with artistes and articulé.

Key facts for articles
PropertyValue
Headwordarticles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.tikl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#864
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of articles in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for articles is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.tikl\. Corpus data places it at rank #864 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de article.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for articles, with forms such as "aritcles", "arrticles", and "artciles". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "artistes", "articulé", "articuler", 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 articles, spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de article.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aritcles,arrticles,artciles,articcles,articels,articless,articlles,articlse,artilces,artticles,atricles,raticles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for articles

Misspelling Variants of "articles"

aritcles8arrticles9artciles8articcles9articels8articless9articlles9articlse8
Misspelling Variants of "articles"

Frequency rank: #864 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "articles"?
"articles" is spelled A-R-T-I-C-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.tikl\.
What does "articles" mean?
As a noun, "articles" means: Pluriel de article.
What words are commonly confused with "articles"?
"articles" is commonly confused with "artistes", "articulé", "articuler". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "articles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "articles" is \aʁ.tikl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "articles" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.