armoire
/ɑːmˈwɑː/
"armoire" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“armoire” is uncommon English (frequency #78,372 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,372
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.
Corpus desk
Index EN-armoire · armoire · English
armoire · rank #78,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH argonaut
Nearest frequency peer: argonaut (-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 “armoire”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- argonaut
argonaut
21,630 corpus weight
- armoire
armoire
21,629 corpus weight
- ascendance
ascendance
21,627 corpus weight
- attainder
attainder
21,626 corpus weight
- auberge
auberge
21,624 corpus weight
- authenticat…
authenticator
21,623 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “armoire” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armoire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɑːmˈwɑː/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “armoire” in English
Rare enough to double-check
armoire is uncommon English at frequency #78,372 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɑːmˈwɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.".
armoire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from Middle French armoire. Doublet of ambry, armarium, and almirah. The correct English form is armoire, spelled A-R-M-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1A type of cupboard, cabinet, or wardrobe, originally used for storing weapons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how armoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The furnishing of this Blue Room was solid and Victorian, it having been the GHQ of my Uncle Tom's late father, who liked things substantial. There was a four-poster bed, a chunky dressing-table, a massive writing table, divers chairs, pictures on the walls of fellows in cocked hats bending over females in muslin and ringlets and over at the far side a cu…
Downing the drink in a single gulp, I move over to the Anatolian white-oak armoire where I keep a brand-new nail gun I bought last week at a hardware store near my office in Wall Street.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Middle French armoire. Doublet of ambry, armarium, and almirah.
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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