arriéré

Name: arriéré, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\a.ʁje.ʁe\

/\a.ʁje.ʁe\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“arriéré” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,661. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,661
frequency rank, French: 6,727
“A” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings: 10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en retard.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arriere · arriéré · French

arriéré · rank #37,661 · 8 variants · 10 confusables

FREQ-MID #37,661
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,727
PHOTO-FINISH aqueuse

Nearest frequency peer: aqueuse (-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.

apporteront

62,343
appétits

62,342
aqueuse

62,341
arriéré

62,340
articulaire

62,339
asperge

62,337

What this shows « arriéré » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

arriéré vs arrivé

71% similar

arriéré vs artère

43% similar

arriéré vs arriver

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for arriéré
Property	Value
Headword	arriéré
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\a.ʁje.ʁe\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#37,661
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	10
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arriéré »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).arriérése place ici:

#37,661

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aqueuse » (#37,660), « articulaire » (#37,662), « appétits » (#37,659). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « arriéré » est au #37,661. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around arriéré (IPA \a.ʁje.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,661 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for arriéré, with forms such as "ariréré", "ariéré", and "arriere". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "arrivé", "artère", "arriver", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arriéré, spelled A-R-R-I-É-R-É.

Definition

1
Qui est en retard.
2
Qui ne correspond plus aux idées courantes, qui est d’une autre époque.
3
Qui a fait moins de progrès que les autres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how arriéré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Réclamer un traitement arriéré.
Des affaires arriérées — Des affaires qui n’ont pu être examinées ou expédiées à temps.

This word in other languages

overdue(English)zurückliegen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ariréré
ariéré
arriere
arriréé
arriérré
arriéér
arréiré
rariéré

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arriéré - 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.

Edit distance from "arriéré"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arriéré"?

"arriéré" is spelled A-R-R-I-É-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁje.ʁe\.

What does "arriéré" mean?

As an adjective, "arriéré" means: Qui est en retard.

What words are commonly confused with "arriéré"?

"arriéré" is commonly confused with "arrivé", "artère", "arriver". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "arriéré"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arriéré" is \a.ʁje.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "arriéré" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arriéré", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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