arme vs arms, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“arme” is an adjective and “arms” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,652
“arme” frequency rank: #25,891
“arms” frequency rank: 27543
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	arme	arms
Definition	Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs arm	Plural des Substantivs arm

Letter map: arme vs arms

Shared letters muted; letters that set arme and arms apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

arme

4 ch

arms

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: arme is anadjective and armsanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “arme” becomes s in “arms”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27543, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

arme is recorded at frequency rank #1,652, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈaʁmə]. arms is at rank #25,891, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

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 27543, this pair ranks #1,800,040 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of arme vs arms

Shared letters: amr. Private to "arme": e. Private to "arms": s.

"arme" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "arms" · 4 letters · shape VCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

arme ← amre · arem · armme · arrme · rame
arms ← armms · armss · arrms · arsm · rams

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "arme" and "arms" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "arme" is an adjective and "arms" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "arme" or "arms"?

"arme" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,652 in our German list, against #25,891 for "arms". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "arme" and "arms". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "arme" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "arms" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,800,040 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"arme" and "arms" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arms vs puzzles". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

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