arrêtions
\a.ʁɛ.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“arrêtions” is uncommon French (frequency #90,418 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,418
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe arrêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arretions · arrêtions · French
arrêtions · rank #90,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,418
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrérages
Nearest frequency peer: arrérages (-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 « arrêtions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arracheur
arracheur
9,586 corpus weight
- arrérages
arrérages
9,584 corpus weight
- arrêtions
arrêtions
9,583 corpus weight
- arthroscopie
arthroscopie
9,582 corpus weight
- arthurienne
arthurienne
9,581 corpus weight
- aréole
aréole
9,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arrêtions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrêtions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁɛ.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « arrêtions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
arrêtions is uncommon French at frequency #90,418 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ʁɛ.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for arrêtions in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is arrêtions, spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe arrêter.
- 2Première 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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