articulaire

\aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\

/\aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“articulaire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,662
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux articulations.

Corpus desk

Index FR-articulaire · articulaire · French

articulaire · rank #37,662 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,662
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH arriéré

Nearest frequency peer: arriéré (-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 « articulaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « articulaire » 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).

articulaire vs auriculaire
82% similar
articulaire vs articulaires
92% similar

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

Key facts for articulaire
PropertyValue
Headwordarticulaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#37,662
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « articulaire »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.articulairese 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 « arriéré » (#37,661), « aqueuse » (#37,660), « asperge » (#37,664). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « articulaire » est au #37,662. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around articulaire (IPA \aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,662 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a rapport aux articulations.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for articulaire, with forms such as "aritculaire", "arrticulaire", and "artciulaire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "auriculaire", "articulaires", 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. The correct French form is articulaire, spelled A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a rapport aux articulations.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un rhumatisme articulaire.
  2. Ainsi, le fait d’avoir été victime de violences sexuelles de l’enfance constitue par exemple un facteur de risque de la fibromyalgie, une maladie provoquant des douleurs musculaires ou articulaires permanentes accompagnées d’autres troubles – du sommeil et de l’humeur notamment.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aritculaire
  • arrticulaire
  • artciulaire
  • articculaire
  • articluaire
  • articualire
  • articulaier
  • articulairre
  • articularie
  • articuliare
  • articullaire
  • artiuclaire
  • artticulaire
  • atriculaire
  • raticulaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of articulaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aritculaire2arrticulaire1artciulaire2articculaire1articluaire2articualire2articulaier2articulairre1
Edit distance from "articulaire"

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 "articulaire"?
"articulaire" is spelled A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\.
What does "articulaire" mean?
As an adjective, "articulaire" means: Qui a rapport aux articulations.
What words are commonly confused with "articulaire"?
"articulaire" is commonly confused with "auriculaire", "articulaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "articulaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "articulaire" is \aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "articulaire" come from?
"articulaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list