premier arrivé, premier servi
\pʁə.mje a.ʁi.ve pʁə.mje sɛʁ.vi\
The verdict
“premier arrivé, premier servi” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Les personnes ou les choses seront traitées dans l’ordre d’arrivées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premier arrivé, premier servi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \pʁə.mje a.ʁi.ve pʁə.mje sɛʁ.vi\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “premier arrivé, premier servi” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for premier arrivé, premier servi is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje a.ʁi.ve pʁə.mje sɛʁ.vi\. 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: "Les personnes ou les choses seront traitées dans l’ordre d’arrivées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for premier arrivé, premier servi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is premier arrivé, premier servi, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -A-R-R-I-V-É-,- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -S-E-R-V-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Les personnes ou les choses seront traitées dans l’ordre d’arrivées.
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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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -A-R-R-I-V-É-,- -P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -S-E-R-V-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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