arrêtiez
\a.ʁɛ.tje\
The verdict
“arrêtiez” is uncommon French (frequency #66,500 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,500
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe arrêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arretiez · arrêtiez · French
arrêtiez · rank #66,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,500
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arment
Nearest frequency peer: arment (-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 « arrêtiez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- argileuse
argileuse
33,504 corpus weight
- argumentant
argumentant
33,503 corpus weight
- arment
arment
33,502 corpus weight
- arrêtiez
arrêtiez
33,501 corpus weight
- artwork
artwork
33,500 corpus weight
- aréopage
aréopage
33,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arrêtiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrêtiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arrêtiez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arrêtiez is uncommon French at frequency #66,500 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ʁɛ.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for arrêtiez, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 arrêtiez, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe arrêter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif du verbe arrêter.
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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