auf der Arbeit
\aʊ̯f deːɐ ˈar.baɪ̯t\
The verdict
“auf der Arbeit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Au travail, dans le sens : sur le lieu du travail, en présentiel plutôt qu’en télétravail.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf der Arbeit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \aʊ̯f deːɐ ˈar.baɪ̯t\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auf der Arbeit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for auf der Arbeit is 14 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʊ̯f deːɐ ˈar.baɪ̯t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Au travail, dans le sens : sur le lieu du travail, en présentiel plutôt qu’en télétravail.".
No misspelling variants are generated for auf der Arbeit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 auf der Arbeit, spelled A-U-F- -D-E-R- -A-R-B-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Au travail, dans le sens : sur le lieu du travail, en présentiel plutôt qu’en télétravail.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is A-U-F- -D-E-R- -A-R-B-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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