arrivais
\a.ʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“arrivais” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,907
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arriver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrivais · arrivais · French
arrivais · rank #12,907 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,907
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrestations
Nearest frequency peer: arrestations (-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 « arrivais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apprécient
apprécient
87,097 corpus weight
- araignées
araignées
87,096 corpus weight
- arrestations
arrestations
87,095 corpus weight
- arrivais
arrivais
87,094 corpus weight
- atteignant
atteignant
87,093 corpus weight
- autorisant
autorisant
87,092 corpus weight
What this shows « arrivais » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arrivais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrivais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around arrivais (IPA \a.ʁi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,907 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrivais, with forms such as "arirvais", "arivais", and "arriavis". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "arrivés", "arrivait", "arrivant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is arrivais, spelled A-R-R-I-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arriver.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arriver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrivais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« J’allais rider un jour sur deux, j'arrivais en chaussures de snow en cours, c’était scandaleux », s’amuse-t-il.
J’arrivais sans le savoir en plein futurisme. Le monde n’était que vitesse, celle des pas, des trains, des balles, des changements de fortune ou d’alliances.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arirvais
- arivais
- arriavis
- arrivaiss
- arrivasi
- arrivias
- arrivvais
- arrviais
- rarivais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrivais - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arrivais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).