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arriver

noun

arriver is spelled A-R-R-I-V-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, arriver means “One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of arriver is arrivers.

How many letters and syllables are in arriver?

Letters7: A-R-R-I-V-E-R
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is arriver?

Arriver appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).

Forms of arriver

  • arrivers plural

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

What does arriver mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way.

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

Arriver in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one who arrives:

LanguageWords
Frencharrivant, arrivante
Portuguesechegante

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 arriver come from?

From arrive + -er.

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

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