arrêtais
\a.ʁɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“arrêtais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,981
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arrêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arretais · arrêtais · French
arrêtais · rank #33,981 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,981
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arriverez
Nearest frequency peer: arriverez (-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 « arrêtais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arrangerait
arrangerait
66,022 corpus weight
- arriverez
arriverez
66,021 corpus weight
- arrêtais
arrêtais
66,020 corpus weight
- Artagnan
Artagnan
66,019 corpus weight
- Artur
Artur
66,018 corpus weight
- assertion
assertion
66,017 corpus weight
What this shows « arrêtais » 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 | arrêtais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrêtais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around arrêtais (IPA \a.ʁɛ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,981 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrêtais, with forms such as "arretais", "arrtêais", and "arrêatis". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêts", "arrêtes", "arrivais", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arrêtais, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arrêter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arrêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arrêtais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De temps en temps, quand mes paupières étaient sur le point de se fermer, je m’arrêtais pour fumer une demi-cigarette, marcher un peu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arretais
- arrtêais
- arrêatis
- arrêtaiss
- arrêtasi
- arrêtias
- arrêttais
- arêrtais
- arêtais
- rarêtais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrêtais - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).