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armer/armé/armée/armées/armés

5 spellings (armer, armé, armée, armées, armés) share /\aʁ.me\/ - one of the denser French clusters here. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.

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A dense sound cluster

A 5-way cluster around /\aʁ.me\/ is uncommon in the French extract (size rank #101 of 9,139). Treat each spelling as its own headword and check the definitions below before writing.

How the spellings diverge

  • Shared stem "arm" then splits - "armer" (5 letters) vs "armé" (4).
  • Shared stem "arm" then splits - "armer" (5 letters) vs "armée" (5).
  • Shared stem "arm" then splits - "armer" (5 letters) vs "armées" (6).
  • Shared stem "arm" then splits - "armer" (5 letters) vs "armés" (5).
  • Shared stem "armé" then splits - "armé" (4 letters) vs "armée" (5).
  • Shared stem "armé" then splits - "armé" (4 letters) vs "armées" (6).
  • Shared stem "armé" then splits - "armé" (4 letters) vs "armés" (5).
  • Shared stem "armée" then splits - "armée" (5 letters) vs "armées" (6).
  • Single-letter fork: "armée" keeps e, "armés" writes s at letter 5.
  • Shared stem "armé" then splits - "armées" (6 letters) vs "armés" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across armer, armé, armée, armées, armés: amr. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • armer

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCVC

    Inventory aemr · private e

  • armé

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCV

    Inventory amré · private é

  • armée

    5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVV

    Inventory aemré · private eé

  • armées

    6 letters · 3 vowels · shape VCCVVC

    Inventory aemrsé · private esé

  • armés

    5 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCVC

    Inventory amrsé · private sé

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "armer" when you mean: Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper.
  • Write "armé" when you mean: Qui est équipé d’armes
  • Write "armée" when you mean: Ensemble structuré de soldats, avec leur équipement et leurs infrastructures.
  • Write "armées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de armé.
  • Write "armés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de armé.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • armer ← amrer · aremr · armerr · armmer · armre · arrmer

Each spelling

armer

verb · /\aʁ.me\/ · #15,304 frequency

Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper.

armé

/\aʁ.me\/

Qui est équipé d’armes

armée

/\aʁ.me\/

Ensemble structuré de soldats, avec leur équipement et leurs infrastructures.

armées

/\aʁ.me\/

Féminin pluriel de armé.

armés

/\aʁ.me\/

Masculin pluriel de armé.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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