arrivée

\a.ʁi.ve\

/\a.ʁi.ve\/ noun

The verdict

“arrivée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#840
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’arriver.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arrivee · arrivée · French

arrivée · rank #840 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #840
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH arriver

Nearest frequency peer: arriver (-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 « arrivée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « arrivée » 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).

arrivée vs arriver
71% similar
arrivée vs arrivés
86% similar
arrivée vs arrivez
71% similar

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

Key facts for arrivée
PropertyValue
Headwordarrivée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʁi.ve\
Letters7
Frequency rank#840
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrivée »

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

#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 « arriver » (#839), « coeur » (#841), « construction » (#842). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « arrivée » est au #840. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around arrivée (IPA \a.ʁi.ve\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #840 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrivée, with forms such as "arirvée", "arivée", and "arrivee". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "arriver", "arrivés", "arrivez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 arrivée, spelled A-R-R-I-V-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’arriver.
  2. 2
    Moment où une personne ou une chose arrive.
  3. 3
    Endroit où une personne ou une chose arrive suite à un déplacement, par opposition au départ.
  4. 4
    Côté de l’arrivée s’opposant au coté du départ.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pour changer d’atmosphère, le bateau libère des poignées de croisiéristes dès son arrivée, pressés par le temps pour visiter La Rochelle.
  2. Pour compléter cette information hollandaise, la Gazette évoque aussi quelques arrivées en provenance de Guinée comme cette nouvelle d'Amsterdam du 29 avril 1647 qui salue l’arrivée de trois navires chargés de sucre en provenance de « Saint-Tomé » (Sao Tomé).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arirvée
  • arivée
  • arrivee
  • arriveé
  • arrivvée
  • arriéve
  • arrviée
  • rarivée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

arirvée2arivée1arrivee1arriveé2arrivvée1arriéve2arrviée2rarivée2
Edit distance from "arrivée"

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 "arrivée"?
"arrivée" is spelled A-R-R-I-V-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁi.ve\.
What does "arrivée" mean?
As a noun, "arrivée" means: Action d’arriver.
What words are commonly confused with "arrivée"?
"arrivée" is commonly confused with "arriver", "arrivés", "arrivez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "arrivée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arrivée" is \a.ʁi.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arrivée" come from?
"arrivée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list