Artois
\aʁ.twa\
The verdict
“Artois” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,073
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays traditionnel de France centré autour d'Arras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artois · Artois · French
Artois · rank #17,073 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,073
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ardoise
Nearest frequency peer: ardoise (-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 « Artois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- archer
archer
82,931 corpus weight
- Ardenne
Ardenne
82,930 corpus weight
- ardoise
ardoise
82,929 corpus weight
- Artois
Artois
82,928 corpus weight
- attendra
attendra
82,927 corpus weight
- attentive
attentive
82,926 corpus weight
What this shows « Artois » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Artois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.twa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Artois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Artois (IPA \aʁ.twa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,073 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Artois, with forms such as "arotis", "arrtois", and "artios". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "arts", "atos", "autos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Artois, spelled A-R-T-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pays traditionnel de France centré autour d'Arras.
- 2Ancien comté puis gouvernement général de France ayant Arras pour capitale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Artois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis mai-juin, la « maison flamande » lilloise est secondée par la « maison de l’Artois » dans le Pas-de-Calais, à Auchel (banlieue de Béthune).
Lens joue un peu sur cette identité d’un club qui a gagné sa place parmi les grands, mais reste le Petit Poucet, développe Williams Nuytens, sociologue et professeur à l’université d’Artois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arotis
- arrtois
- artios
- artoiss
- artosi
- arttois
- atrois
- ratois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Artois - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).