armful
/ˈɑɹmˌfəl/
"armful" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“armful” is uncommon English (frequency #96,745 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,745
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The amount an arm or arms can hold.
Corpus desk
Index EN-armful · armful · English
armful · rank #96,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,745
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aristo
Nearest frequency peer: aristo (-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 “armful”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Archana
Archana
3,261 corpus weight
- archetypical
archetypical
3,260 corpus weight
- aristo
aristo
3,257 corpus weight
- armful
armful
3,256 corpus weight
- asci
asci
3,254 corpus weight
- ashlar
ashlar
3,252 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “armful” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑɹmˌfəl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “armful” in English
Rare enough to double-check
armful is uncommon English at frequency #96,745 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɑɹmˌfəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The amount an arm or arms can hold.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for armful, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From arm + -ful (suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached). The correct English form is armful, spelled A-R-M-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1The amount an arm or arms can hold.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how armful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]ake three or four good arms full of muckle Straw, Hay, or Fern, not too wet, not to dry, and obſerving which ſide of the Orchard the Wind blows on, then laying a good armful of muckle in three or four places according to the bigneſs of your Orchard, then get ſome dry ſticks, and having kindled them put an armful of muckle upon the Fire, and it will ſmo…
Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]
Etymology
From arm + -ful (suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached).
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); 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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