arrear
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁeˈa(ʁ)/
arrear is spelled A-R-R-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to harness (to place a harness on something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr arreios em”.
What does arrear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harness (to place a harness on something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr arreios em 2. aparelhar 3. ceder
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arrear
- arreio first-person present singular
- arreei first-person preterite singular
- arreado participle past
- arreares infinitive second-person singular
- arrearmos first-person infinitive plural
- arreardes infinitive plural second-person
- arrearem infinitive plural third-person
- arreando gerund
- arreados masculine participle past
- arreada feminine participle past
- arreadas feminine participle past
- arreias indicative present second-person
- arreia indicative present singular
- arreamos first-person indicative plural
- arreais indicative plural present
- arreiam indicative plural present
- arreava first-person imperfect indicative
- arreavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrear?
- Brazil /a.ʁeˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.heˈa(h)]
- /a.ʁeˈa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrear in Portuguese?
arrear appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).