arrêtoir
French, noun/a.ʁɛ.twaʁ/
arrêtoir is spelled A-R-R-Ê-T-O-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrêtoir is a French masculine noun meaning “keeper, valve ball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Butée qui limite le mouvement d’une pièce mobile dans un mécanisme”.
What does arrêtoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekeeper, valve ball
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Butée qui limite le mouvement d’une pièce mobile dans un mécanisme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arrêtoir
- arrêtoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrêtoir?
- /a.ʁɛ.twaʁ/
- /a.ʁe.twaʁ/
- \a.ʁɛ.twaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arrêtoir in French?
arrêtoir appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).