# arrange

> English word · Verb · IPA /əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #7,095

## Definitions
1. To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
2. To plan; to prepare in advance.
3. To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der.
Proto-Celtic *reketi
Gaulish *rekosbor.
Vulgar Latin *rencus
Old French reng
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Old French rengier
Old French arangierbor.
Middle English arengen
English arrange
Inherited from Middle English arengen, arrangen (“to draw up a battle line”), borrowed from Old French arengier, arangier (“to put in a line, put in a row”), derived from reng, rang, ranc (“line, row, rank”), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, a form of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

## Easily confused with
- **Assange** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arrange-vs-assange)
- **arranged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arrange-vs-arranged)
- **arranges** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arrange-vs-arranges)
- **arranger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arrange-vs-arranger)
- **Arran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arran-vs-arrange)
- **arcane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arcane-vs-arrange)
- **Ariane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ariane-vs-arrange)

## Common misspellings (8)
`arange`, `ararnge`, `arragne`, `arraneg`, `arrangge`, `arrannge`, `arrnage`, `rarange`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/arrange