# arsenal

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɑːsənəl/ · frequency rank #4,209

## Definitions
1. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
2. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
3. A store or supply of anything.
4. Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

## Etymology
From Italian arsenale, from Arabic دَار الصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “manufacturing shop”), from دَار (dār) + صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa).

## Easily confused with
- **arsenic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arsenal-vs-arsenic)
- **arena** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arena-vs-arsenal)
- **arenas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/arenas-vs-arsenal)
- **adrenal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/adrenal-vs-arsenal)

## Common misspellings (10)
`aresnal`, `arrsenal`, `arseanl`, `arsenall`, `arsenla`, `arsennal`, `arsneal`, `arssenal`, `asrenal`, `rasenal`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/arsenal