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armed

/ɑɹmd/adjective, verb

armed is spelled A-R-M-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, armed means “Equipped, especially with a weapon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in armed?

Letters5: A-R-M-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing39 times per million words; the 2,523rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is armed?

Armed appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd 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 armed?

  • US /ɑɹmd/
  • UK /ɑːmd/
  • /ˈɑːɹmɪd/

Armed has one syllable (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: En-us-armed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with armed?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as armed from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹmd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dream, derma.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of armed

  • more armed comparative
  • most armed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does armed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Equipped, especially with a weapon.

    nuclear-armed

  2. 2

    Equipped with a gun.

  3. 3

    Prepared for use; loaded.

  4. 4

    obsoleteFurnished with something that serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.

  5. 5

    Having prickles or thorns.

  6. 6

    Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.

  7. 7

    Possessing arms of a specified number or type.

    the four-armed creature

  8. 8

    Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of arm (a form of arm)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Armed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frencharmé (equipped, especially with a weapon)
Germanbewaffnet (equipped, especially with a weapon), armig (having arms)
Portuguesearmado (equipped, especially with a weapon)
Spanisharmado [con], armífero, provisto [de] (equipped, especially with a weapon), con brazo, con brazos (having arms)

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 armed come from?

From arm (“to equip with a weapon”) + -ed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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