arrêté
\a.ʁɛ.te\
The verdict
“arrêté” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,018
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Qui est immobile, immuable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrete · arrêté · French
arrêté · rank #1,018 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,018
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH analyse
Nearest frequency peer: analyse (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “arrêté”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- édition
édition
98,986 corpus weight
- élections
élections
98,985 corpus weight
- analyse
analyse
98,984 corpus weight
- arrêté
arrêté
98,983 corpus weight
- assurer
assurer
98,982 corpus weight
- carrière
carrière
98,981 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “arrêté” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | arrêté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arrêté” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around arrêté (IPA \a.ʁɛ.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,018 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrêté, with forms such as "arrete", "arrtêé", and "arrêtté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arte", "arrivé", "arrêts", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arrêté, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est immobile, immuable.
- 2Debout, en position verticale
- 3Se dit d'un animal quadrupède représenté avec les quatre pattes posées au sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrêté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet homme n’a pas un caractère bien arrêté
Avoir des idées arrêtées, des principes arrêtés, une opinion arrêtée sur quelque chose
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arrete
- arrtêé
- arrêtté
- arrêét
- arêrté
- arêté
- rarêté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrêté - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arrêté", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
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- "arrêté" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "arte". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,018 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.