armament
/ˈɑː(ɹ)məmənt/noun
armament is spelled A-R-M-A-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is armamant: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 49 of all searches for the word. Armament is a noun meaning “A body of forces equipped for war”. The plural of armament is armaments.
How many letters and syllables are in armament?
| Letters | 8: A-R-M-A-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 27,462nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, armamant, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell armament?
Armament is spelled A-R-M-A-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 49 of the searches for armament in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is armament?
Armament appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce armament?
- /ˈɑː(ɹ)məmənt/
Armament has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-armament.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of armament
- armaments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does armament mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A body of forces equipped for war.
- 2
All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- 3
Any equipment for resistance.
- 4
The process of building up military capacity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate armament?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of armament: armt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Armament in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | force de frappe, forces armées , armement |
| German | Kriegsstärke, Streitkräfte , Ausrüstung, Rüstung , Aufrüstung |
| Portuguese | força , armamento |
| Spanish | armamento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does armament come from?
From Latin armāmentum, from armō (“to arm”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).