arrérages
\a.ʁe.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“arrérages” is uncommon French (frequency #90,417 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,417
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui est dû, ce qui est échu d’un revenu, d’une rente, d’un loyer, d’une ferme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrerages · arrérages · French
arrérages · rank #90,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,417
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrêtions
Nearest frequency peer: arrêtions (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « arrérages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ARNm
ARNm
9,588 corpus weight
- arracheur
arracheur
9,586 corpus weight
- arrérages
arrérages
9,584 corpus weight
- arrêtions
arrêtions
9,583 corpus weight
- arthroscopie
arthroscopie
9,582 corpus weight
- arthurienne
arthurienne
9,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arrérages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrérages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁe.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arrérages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arrérages is uncommon French at frequency #90,417 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʁe.ʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ce qui est dû, ce qui est échu d’un revenu, d’une rente, d’un loyer, d’une ferme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for arrérages, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is arrérages, spelled A-R-R-É-R-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est dû, ce qui est échu d’un revenu, d’une rente, d’un loyer, d’une ferme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrérages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pauvre bonhomme, d’ailleurs, qui sans les colzas de l’an passé, eût été bien embarrassé de payer ses arrérages.
Witte comptait que, dans un espace de vingt ou trente ans, la Russie d'Europe serait pourvue d'un outillage complet : voies de communication, ports, etc.. que, dès lors, les exportations se développant dans d'énormes proportions, rien ne serait plus aisé que de payer les arrérages, même de rembourser progressivement le capital, des emprunts émis à l'extér…
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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