arriération
French, noun/a.ʁje.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
arriération is spelled A-R-R-I-É-R-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 118,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arriération is a French feminine noun meaning “retardation, backwardness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retard du développement intellectuel, par rapport au niveau normal à l’âge de la personne, c'est une…”.
What does arriération mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineretardation, backwardness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Retard du développement intellectuel, par rapport au niveau normal à l’âge de la personne, c'est une oligophrénie.
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 arriération
- arriérations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arriération?
- /a.ʁje.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
- \a.ʁje.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arriération
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arriération in French?
arriération appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).