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arrange

/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/verb, noun

arrange is spelled A-R-R-A-N-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, arrange means “To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in arrange?

Letters7: A-R-R-A-N-G-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,121st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is arrange?

Arrange appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce arrange?

  • /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Arrange has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-arrange.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of arrange

  • arranges present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • arranging participle, present
  • arranged participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does arrange mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

  2. 2

    To plan; to prepare in advance.

    to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper

  3. 3

    To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

noun

  1. 1

    rearranged rendition of a song; arrangement

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Arrange in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frencharranger, organiser (to set up, organise; to put in order)
Germanarrangieren, systematisieren, aufstellen, ordnen (to set up, organise; to put in order), einrichten (to plan; to prepare in advance – see also…)
Portuguesearranjar, organizar, dispor, arrumar (to set up, organise; to put in order)
Spanisharreglar, acotejar, compaginar (to set up, organise; to put in order), encargarse de, quedar con, pedir que (to plan; to prepare in advance – see also…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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