en arrière de
The verdict
“en arrière de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a preposition - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Placé derrière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en arrière de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en arrière de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for en arrière de is 13 letters long, classified as a preposition. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Placé derrière.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for en arrière de in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is en arrière de, spelled E-N- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E- -D-E.
Definition
- 1Placé derrière.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “en arrière de”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-N- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E- -D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.