arrested
/əˈɹɛs.tɪd/
The verdict
“arrested” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #88,535 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,535
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado simple del verbo (to) arrest.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arrested · arrested · Spanish
arrested · rank #88,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arrendados
Nearest frequency peer: arrendados (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “arrested”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Arranz
Arranz
11,469 corpus weight
- arrebate
arrebate
11,468 corpus weight
- arrendados
arrendados
11,467 corpus weight
- arrested
arrested
11,466 corpus weight
- arrinconar
arrinconar
11,465 corpus weight
- arrodillo
arrodillo
11,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “arrested” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrested |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈɹɛs.tɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “arrested” en español
Rare enough to double-check
arrested is uncommon Spanish at frequency #88,535 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈɹɛs.tɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
arrested has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is arrested, spelled A-R-R-E-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Pasado simple del verbo (to) arrest.
- 2Participio pasado del verbo (to) arrest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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