arrêta
\a.ʁɛ.ta\
The verdict
“arrêta” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,359
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arrêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arreta · arrêta · French
arrêta · rank #20,359 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,359
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH army
Nearest frequency peer: army (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrêta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ariège
Ariège
79,645 corpus weight
- armoiries
armoiries
79,644 corpus weight
- army
army
79,643 corpus weight
- arrêta
arrêta
79,642 corpus weight
- assoir
assoir
79,641 corpus weight
- astronomes
astronomes
79,640 corpus weight
What this shows « arrêta » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrêta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrêta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around arrêta (IPA \a.ʁɛ.ta\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,359 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arrêter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrêta, with forms such as "arreta", "arrtêa", and "arrêat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêté", "arrêts", "arriva", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is arrêta, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arrêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrêta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En atteignant la porte cochère, les yeux baignés de larmes, le parfumeur vit à peine un beau cheval anglais en sueur qui arrêta net à la porte un des plus jolis cabriolets qui roulassent en ce moment sur les pavés de Paris.
L’employé, toujours perplexe, après n’avoir pu décider dans son esprit à qui il remettrait la plume en premier lieu, allait, pour ne froisser personne, la retremper dans l’encrier, afin qu’il n’y ait point de préférence à manifester, lorsqu’il s’arrêta net, gardant le porte-plume entre ses doigts.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arreta
- arrtêa
- arrêat
- arrêtta
- arêrta
- arêta
- rarêta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrêta - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).