Which to use
“arrêté” and “arrêtées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,018
- “arrêté” frequency rank
- #15,091
- “arrêtées” frequency rank
- 16109
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | arrêté | arrêtées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est immobile, immuable. | Féminin pluriel de arrêté. |
Same sound, different letters: arrêté vs arrêtées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. arrêté and arrêtées are pronounced identically (\a.ʁɛ.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “arrêté” sits inside “arrêtées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16109, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
arrêté is recorded at frequency rank #1,018, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʁɛ.te\. arrêtées is at rank #15,091, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʁɛ.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 16109, this pair ranks #389,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of arrêté vs arrêtées
Shared letters: artéê. Private to "arrêté": -. Private to "arrêtées": es.
"arrêté" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "arrêtées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "arrêté" and "arrêtées" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "arrêté" or "arrêtées"?
What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "arrêté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "arrêtées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #389,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "arrêté" and "arrêtées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arrêtées vs arrosées". Nearby pair
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