arriva

\a.ʁi.va\

/\a.ʁi.va\/ verb

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The verdict

“arriva” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,344
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arriver.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arriva · arriva · French

arriva · rank #11,344 · 6 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,344
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH armoire

Nearest frequency peer: armoire (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « arriva »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

arriva vs arrivé
83% similar
arriva vs arriver
71% similar
arriva vs arrivée
71% similar

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

Key facts for arriva
PropertyValue
Headwordarriva
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ʁi.va\
Letters6
Frequency rank#11,344
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arriva »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.arrivase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « armoire » (#11,343), « attendue » (#11,345), « animations » (#11,342). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « arriva » est au #11,344. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around arriva (IPA \a.ʁi.va\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,344 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arriver.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for arriva, with forms such as "arirva", "ariva", and "arriav". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "arrivé", "arriver", "arrivée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arriva, spelled A-R-R-I-V-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arriver.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La troupe voyageuse, qui ne s’était arrêtée à Worringen que pour déjeuner, arriva vers les quatre heures du soir à Neufs.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arirva
  • ariva
  • arriav
  • arrivva
  • arrvia
  • rariva

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arriva - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

arirva2ariva1arriav2arrivva1arrvia2rariva2
Edit distance from "arriva"

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 "arriva"?
"arriva" is spelled A-R-R-I-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁi.va\.
What does "arriva" mean?
As a verb, "arriva" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arriver.
What words are commonly confused with "arriva"?
"arriva" is commonly confused with "arrivé", "arriver", "arrivée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "arriva"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arriva" is \a.ʁi.va\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arriva" come from?
"arriva" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

amenés#11,341basées#11,349Adidas#11,337Boeing#11,353

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

boeuf6 variantssurf6 variantsself6 variantsfisc6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list