arrêtées
\a.ʁɛ.te\
The verdict
“arrêtées” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,091
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de arrêté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arretees · arrêtées · French
arrêtées · rank #15,091 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,091
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH armistice
Nearest frequency peer: armistice (-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 “arrêtées”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Aragon
Aragon
84,912 corpus weight
- armistice
armistice
84,911 corpus weight
- arrêtées
arrêtées
84,910 corpus weight
- atome
atome
84,909 corpus weight
- australiens
australiens
84,908 corpus weight
- ave
ave
84,907 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “arrêtées” 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 | arrêtées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arrêtées” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around arrêtées (IPA \a.ʁɛ.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,091 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de arrêté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrêtées, with forms such as "arretees", "arrtêées", and "arrêteés". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêts", "arrêter", "arrêtez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 arrêtées, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de arrêté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how arrêtées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Écoutez, ma chère madame Cibot, il faudrait pour que j’eusse des opinions arrêtées, pour concevoir un plan, que je connusse M. Schmucke, que je visse les objets dont se compose la succession, que j’eusse une conférence avec ce Juif de qui vous me parlez ; et, alors, laissez-moi vous diriger…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arretees
- arrtêées
- arrêteés
- arrêttées
- arrêtéess
- arrêtése
- arrêétes
- arêrtées
- arêtées
- rarêtées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrêtées - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 3, 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 "arrêtées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "arrêtées". Here's where to go from here.
- "arrêtées" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "arrêts". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,091 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.