ArturvsartusWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#33,983
“Artur” frequency rank
#40,127
“artus” frequency rank
74110
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Artur artus
Definition Arthur. Étroit, serré.

Letter map: Artur vs artus

Shared letters muted; letters that set Artur and artus apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Artur and artus follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Artur
5 ch
artus

Grammar separator: Artur vs artus

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Artur is aname and artusanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - r in “Artur” becomes s in “artus”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74110, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Artur is recorded at frequency rank #33,983, classified as aname, pronounced \əɾˈtuɾ\. 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 74110, this pair ranks #38,213 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Artur vs artus

Shared letters: artu. Private to "Artur": -. Private to "artus": s.

"Artur" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "artus" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Artur ← arrtur · artru · arttur · arturr · arutr · atrur · ratur
  • artus ← arrtus · artsu · arttus · artuss · aruts · atrus · ratus

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Artur" and "artus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Artur" is a name and "artus" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Artur" or "artus" show up more?
"Artur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,983 in our French list, against #40,127 for "artus". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "Artur" and "artus". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Artur" 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 #38,213 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Artur" and "artus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arti vs artus". 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 #38,213 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