armour
noun, verb
armour is a noun meaning “British standard spelling of armor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-M-O-U-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears 5.6 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of armour is armours.
What does armour mean?
noun
- 1
British standard spelling of armor.
verb
- 1
British standard spelling of armor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce armour?
Armour has 2 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).
Forms of armour
- armours plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- armouring participle, present
- armoured participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is armour?
Armour appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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).