armlos
[ˈaʁmˌloːs]
The verdict
“armlos” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Arme, keine Arme habend
Corpus desk
Index DE-armlos · armlos · German
armlos · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈaʁmˌloːs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „armlos“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
armlos is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈaʁmˌloːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ohne Arme, keine Arme habend".
No generated misspelling entries exist for armlos in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct German form is armlos, spelled A-R-M-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1ohne Arme, keine Arme habend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how armlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das armlose, beinlose Baby windet sich in den Überresten der fleischigen Eierschale.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.