arrival

Other forms of arrival

plural

arrivals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arrival

What does arrival mean?

arrival means "accomplishment of an objective". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arrival?

arrival has 3 syllables: ar-ri-val. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ɚˈaɪvəl/.

What is another word for arrival?

Close synonyms include reaching, arriver, comer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arrival a common word?

arrival is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.