arrival
/əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/noun
arrival is spelled A-R-R-I-V-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is arival: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 38 of all searches for the word. Arrival is a noun meaning “The act of arriving (reaching a certain place)”. The plural of arrival is arrivals.
How many letters and syllables are in arrival?
| Letters | 7: A-R-R-I-V-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, arival, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell arrival?
Arrival is spelled A-R-R-I-V-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for arrival in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is arrival?
Arrival appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th 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 arrival?
- /əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/
Arrival has 3 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-uk-arrival.ogg, En-us-arrival.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of arrival
- arrivals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does arrival mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
- 2
The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.
- 3
The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth.
- 4
The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
- 5
A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate arrival?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of arrival: arr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Arrival in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | arrivée , arrivant, arrivante |
| German | Ankunft, Eintreffen, Ankommen |
| Portuguese | chegada, vinda |
| Spanish | llegada, arribo, arribada, arribaje, recalada, alleganza |
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.
Where does arrival come from?
From Middle English arivaile, arivaille, arrival, arryvaile, arryvaylle, aryvayle, aryvaylle, from Middle French arrivaille, from arriver. By surface analysis, arrive + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).