armateur

\aʁ.ma.tœʁ\

/\aʁ.ma.tœʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“armateur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,622. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,622
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’occupe de l’armement des navires.

Corpus desk

Index FR-armateur · armateur · French

armateur · rank #26,622 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,622
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aristocrates

Nearest frequency peer: aristocrates (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « armateur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « armateur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

armateur vs armature
75% similar
armateur vs aviateur
75% similar
armateur vs armateurs
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for armateur
PropertyValue
Headwordarmateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aʁ.ma.tœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#26,622
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armateur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.armateurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aristocrates » (#26,621), « arménienne » (#26,623), « ardemment » (#26,620). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armateur » est au #26,622. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around armateur (IPA \aʁ.ma.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,622 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui s’occupe de l’armement des navires.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for armateur, with forms such as "amrateur", "aramteur", and "armaetur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "armature", "aviateur", "armateurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is armateur, spelled A-R-M-A-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui s’occupe de l’armement des navires.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how armateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Société armatrice.
  2. Organismes armateurs.

This word in other languages

shipowner(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrateur
  • aramteur
  • armaetur
  • armateru
  • armateurr
  • armatteur
  • armatuer
  • armmateur
  • armtaeur
  • arrmateur
  • ramateur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armateur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amrateur2aramteur2armaetur2armateru2armateurr1armatteur1armatuer2armmateur1
Edit distance from "armateur"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "armateur"?
"armateur" is spelled A-R-M-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.ma.tœʁ\.
What does "armateur" mean?
As an adjective, "armateur" means: Qui s’occupe de l’armement des navires.
What words are commonly confused with "armateur"?
"armateur" is commonly confused with "armature", "aviateur", "armateurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armateur" is \aʁ.ma.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armateur" come from?
"armateur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "armateur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arrondie#26,624anguille#26,613Aznavour#26,631banalité#26,633

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

adressait11 variantsbroderie11 variantsByzance11 variantsévaluées11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list