arum
\a.ʁɔm\
The verdict
“arum” is uncommon French (frequency #77,236 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,236
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante dont la fleur est formée d’une spathe en forme de cornet s’élevant sur un réceptacle cylindrique et allongé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arum · arum · French
arum · rank #77,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,236
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arpentent
Nearest frequency peer: arpentent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « arum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- argumentatif
argumentatif
22,767 corpus weight
- arpentent
arpentent
22,766 corpus weight
- arum
arum
22,765 corpus weight
- Ashford
Ashford
22,764 corpus weight
- askip
askip
22,763 corpus weight
- assagi
assagi
22,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arum is uncommon French at frequency #77,236 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for arum in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is arum, spelled A-R-U-M.
Definition
- 1Plante dont la fleur est formée d’une spathe en forme de cornet s’élevant sur un réceptacle cylindrique et allongé.
- 2Zantédeschie (Zantedeschia).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Point de chienne noire et feu, mais voici les cornes des futures jacinthes et la feuille déjà large de l’arum pied-de-veau.
La racine de plusieurs espèces d’arums donne une fécule nourrissante.
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); 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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