arrivée
\a.ʁi.ve\
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
- and
and
99,164 corpus weight
- arriver
arriver
99,162 corpus weight
- arrivée
arrivée
99,161 corpus weight
- coeur
coeur
99,160 corpus weight
- construction
construction
99,159 corpus weight
- devoir
devoir
99,158 corpus weight
What this shows « arrivée » 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 | arrivée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁi.ve\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arrivée »
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
- 1Action d’arriver.
- 2Moment où une personne ou une chose arrive.
- 3Endroit où une personne ou une chose arrive suite à un déplacement, par opposition au départ.
- 4Côté de l’arrivée s’opposant au coté du départ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arrivée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour changer d’atmosphère, le bateau libère des poignées de croisiéristes dès son arrivée, pressés par le temps pour visiter La Rochelle.
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.
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 "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).