arisvsartusWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: aris is a verb, artus is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“aris” is a verb and “artus” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,442
“aris” frequency rank
#40,127
“artus” frequency rank
85569
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aris artus
Definition Première personne du singulier du passé défini de l’indicatif du verbe arat/ariñ. Étroit, serré.

Letter map: aris vs artus

Shared letters muted; letters that set aris and artus apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. aris runs 4 letters (VCVC) against artus's 5 (VCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
aris
5 ch
artus

Part-of-speech tell for aris / artus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: aris is averb and artusanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85569, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aris is recorded at frequency rank #45,442, classified as averb, pronounced \ˈɑːris\. artus is at rank #40,127, tagged as anadj.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 85569, this pair ranks #11,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aris vs artus

Shared letters: ars. Private to "aris": i. Private to "artus": tu.

"aris" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "artus" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aris ← ariss · arris · arsi
  • artus ← arrtus · artsu · arttus · artuss · aruts · atrus · ratus

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "aris" and "artus" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aris" is a verb and "artus" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "aris" or "artus" show up more?
"artus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,127 in our French list, against #45,442 for "aris". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "aris" vs "artus" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aris" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "artus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aris" and "artus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aris vs aves". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #11,125 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list