artivsartusWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,494
“arti” frequency rank
#40,127
“artus” frequency rank
89621
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature arti artus
Definition Métier. Étroit, serré.

Letter map: arti vs artus

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

4 ch
arti
5 ch
artus

Grammar separator: arti vs artus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: arti is anoun and artusanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89621, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

arti is recorded at frequency rank #49,494, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈar.ti\. 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 89621, this pair ranks #5,591 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of arti vs artus

Shared letters: art. Private to "arti": i. Private to "artus": su.

"arti" · 4 letters · shape VCCV  ·  "artus" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • arti ← arit · arrti · artti · rati
  • artus ← arrtus · artsu · arttus · artuss · aruts · atrus · ratus

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "arti" and "artus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "arti" is a noun and "artus" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "arti" or "artus"?
"artus" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,127 in our French list, against #49,494 for "arti". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "arti" 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 #5,591 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "arti" and "artus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arti vs aru". 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 #5,591 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