arrivait
\a.ʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“arrivait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,727. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,727
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arriver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arrivait · arrivait · French
arrivait · rank #5,727 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,727
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apport
Nearest frequency peer: apport (-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 « arrivait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aimerai
aimerai
94,277 corpus weight
- annuler
annuler
94,276 corpus weight
- apport
apport
94,275 corpus weight
- arrivait
arrivait
94,274 corpus weight
- asseoir
asseoir
94,273 corpus weight
- aurons
aurons
94,271 corpus weight
What this shows « arrivait » 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 | arrivait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrivait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around arrivait (IPA \a.ʁi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,727 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arriver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrivait, with forms such as "arirvait", "arivait", and "arriavit". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "arrivent", "arrivant", "arrivants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arrivait, spelled A-R-R-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe arriver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrivait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’était arrêté près d’un des buffets et s’amusait à compter le nombre de petits-fours qu’arrivait à ingurgiter le chef de l’administration communale quand son talkie grésilla.
Le mariage y fut, dit-on, consommé, et il continua à la greluchonner pendant quelque temps ; souvent même il était réduit à se cacher ou à se dérober par une fausse porte lorsque le président, qui en savait bien quelque chose et qui était assez fou pour lutter contre lui, arrivait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arirvait
- arivait
- arriavit
- arrivaitt
- arrivati
- arriviat
- arrivvait
- arrviait
- rarivait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrivait - 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
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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).