arriver à l’heure

phrase

The verdict

“arriver à l’heure” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: chegar na hora

Key facts for arriver à l’heure
PropertyValue
Headwordarriver à l’heure
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “arriver à l’heure” sits in Portuguese frequency

arriver à l’heure falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for arriver à l’heure is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for arriver à l’heure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese 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 Portuguese form is arriver à l’heure, spelled A-R-R-I-V-E-R- -À- -L-’-H-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    chegar na hora
  2. 2
    Não chegar atrasado, chegar na hora necessária.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arriver à l’heure"?
"arriver à l’heure" is spelled A-R-R-I-V-E-R- -À- -L-’-H-E-U-R-E.
What does "arriver à l’heure" mean?
As a phrase, "arriver à l’heure" means: chegar na hora
What language does "arriver à l’heure" come from?
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Using “arriver à l’heure”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-R-R-I-V-E-R- -À- -L-’-H-E-U-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: 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.