arma

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,159

in French word usage

Misspellings

2

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

arma is aFrenchnoun. It means: Opération de destruction de matériel. Often confused with Art and ars.

Key facts for arma
PropertyValue
Headwordarma
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#39,159
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of arma in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for arma is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #39,159 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Opération de destruction de matériel.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 2 documented wrong-spelling variants for arma, including "armma" and "arrma". 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", "ars", "asm", 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 French 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

  1. 1
    Opération de destruction de matériel.

Antonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: armma,arrma

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arma

Misspelling Variants of "arma"

armma5arrma5
Misspelling Variants of "arma"

Frequency rank: #39,159 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arma"?
"arma" is spelled A-R-M-A.
What does "arma" mean?
As a noun, "arma" means: Opération de destruction de matériel.
What words are commonly confused with "arma"?
"arma" is commonly confused with "Art", "ars", "asm". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "arma" come from?
"arma" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.