arma
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,928
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
arma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Herramienta para atacar o defenderse en un combate físico. Pronounced [ˈaɾma]. It ranks #1,928 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with art and aro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɾma] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for arma is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɾma]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,928 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for arma, with forms such as "amra", "aram", and "armma". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "art", "aro", "aya", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is arma, spelled A-R-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Herramienta para atacar o defenderse en un combate físico.
- 2Por extensión, apéndice u órgano con que una bestia puede atacar o defenderse, como los cuernos o los espolones.
- 3Por extensión, medio empleado para atacar o defenderse en una disputa moral o intelectual.
- 4Más generalmente, medio al que se puede recurrir para alcanzar un fin deseado.
- 5Ataque o defensa repentinos e imprevistos.
- 6Cada una de las especialidades militares en que se subdividen las fuerzas armadas según su equipamiento y función en el combate.
- 7Profesión militar.
- 8Todo el ejército de un país.
- 9Blasón de un linaje o de una localidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amra,aram,armma,arrma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "arma"
Frequency rank: #1,928 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: