Armbrust
[ˈaʁmˌbʁʊst]
The verdict
“Armbrust” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,967
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Schusswaffe) Gerät zum Abschießen von Pfeilen; der Bogen ist hierbei an einer Auflage für die Pfeile befestigt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Armbrust |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʁmˌbʁʊst] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Armbrust” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Armbrust (IPA [ˈaʁmˌbʁʊst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,967 among 113,935 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Schusswaffe) Gerät zum Abschießen von Pfeilen; der Bogen ist hierbei an einer Auflage für die Pfeile befestigt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Armbrust, with forms such as "amrbrust", "arbmrust", and "armbbrust". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Armbrust, spelled A-R-M-B-R-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1(Schusswaffe) Gerät zum Abschießen von Pfeilen; der Bogen ist hierbei an einer Auflage für die Pfeile befestigt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrbrust
- arbmrust
- armbbrust
- armbrrust
- armbrsut
- armbrusst
- armbrustt
- armbruts
- armburst
- armmbrust
- armrbust
- arrmbrust
- rambrust
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Armbrust - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Armbrust”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-R-M-B-R-U-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaʁmˌbʁʊst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.