arrive
/əˈɹaɪv/verb
arrive is spelled A-R-R-I-V-E. The wrong spelling people search most is arive: about 810 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Arrive is a verb meaning “To reach; to get to a certain place”.
How many letters and syllables are in arrive?
| Letters | 6: A-R-R-I-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, arive, about 810 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell arrive?
Arrive is spelled A-R-R-I-V-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for arrive 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 arrive?
Arrive appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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 arrive?
- /əˈɹaɪv/
Arrive 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-arrive.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with arrive?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as arrive.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ravier.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of arrive
- arrives present, singular, he/she/it
- arriving participle, present
- arrived participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does arrive mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To reach; to get to a certain place.
We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.
- 2
To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
He had finally arrived on Broadway.
- 3
To come; said of time.
The time has arrived for us to depart.
- 4
To happen or occur.
- 5
IrelandUKslangvulgarTo achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- 6
archaicTo reach; to come to.
- 7
obsoleteTo bring to shore.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Arrive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | arriver , réussir, percer |
| German | gelangen, kommen, erreichen, ankommen , einlangen |
| Portuguese | chegar , vencer |
| Spanish | llegar, arribar , lograr, triunfar |
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 arrive come from?
From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome. For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).