artimon
\aʁ.ti.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“artimon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mât de l’arrière, le plus petit d’un grand bâtiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artimon · artimon · French
artimon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | artimon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ti.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « artimon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
artimon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.ti.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for artimon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is artimon, spelled A-R-T-I-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mât de l’arrière, le plus petit d’un grand bâtiment.
- 2Voile en forme de trapèze attachée au mât d’artimon, le plus près de la poupe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how artimon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déjà il n’avait plus hors de l’eau que son mât d’artimon, seul resté debout, isolé sur l’eau.
Le roi n'eût jamais souffert qu'un pavillon, autre que le sien, flottât à une corne d’artimon ou au sommet du grand mât.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.