arms dealer
"arms-dealer" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“arms dealer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person involved in the distribution and sale of weapons, especially when it also involves smuggling.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arms dealer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arms dealer” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
arms dealer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for arms dealer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is arms dealer, spelled A-R-M-S- -D-E-A-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person involved in the distribution and sale of weapons, especially when it also involves smuggling.
- 2A media company that licenses its works to various other companies rather than distributing them on its own.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “arms dealer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-R-M-S- -D-E-A-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.