armbar
"armbar" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“armbar” is uncommon English (frequency #71,287 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,287
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A joint lock where the elbow is hyperextended in order to cause pain or injury.
Corpus desk
Index EN-armbar · armbar · English
armbar · rank #71,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,287
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Armidale
Nearest frequency peer: Armidale (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “armbar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Arai
Arai
28,719 corpus weight
- arcuate
arcuate
28,718 corpus weight
- armbar
armbar
28,714 corpus weight
- Armidale
Armidale
28,713 corpus weight
- Armistead
Armistead
28,712 corpus weight
- askari
askari
28,710 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “armbar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armbar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “armbar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
armbar is uncommon English at frequency #71,287 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A joint lock where the elbow is hyperextended in order to cause pain or injury.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for armbar, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From arm + bar. The correct English form is armbar, spelled A-R-M-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1A joint lock where the elbow is hyperextended in order to cause pain or injury.
Etymology
From arm + bar.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).