armature
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,696
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
armature is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des pièces de bois ou de métal qui servent à maintenir les parties d’un ouvrage, en construction ou achevé : Pronounced \aʁ.ma.tyʁ\. Often confused with armure and armatures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ma.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for armature is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.ma.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,696 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for armature, with forms such as "amrature", "aramture", and "armatrue". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "armure", "armatures", "armateur", 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 armature, spelled A-R-M-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des pièces de bois ou de métal qui servent à maintenir les parties d’un ouvrage, en construction ou achevé :
- 2Ces mêmes pièces qui servent à garnir un appareil et à en assurer le fonctionnement.
- 3Mécanisme en cuivre servant à fermer l'orifice d'une cuvette de garde-robe à l'anglaise, qui est composé d'un piston et de sa bonde, d'une traverse à trois branches et son coulisseau, d'une poignée et sa rosette.
- 4Ce qui structure une chose.
- 5Plaques métalliques qui font partie des condensateurs électriques.
- 6Série des dièses et bémols placés à la clef, qui indique le ton et le mode du morceau.
- 7Barre ou fil incorporé dans un ouvrage en béton pour améliorer la résistance à la traction ou, éventuellement, à la compression ou au cisaillement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrature,aramture,armatrue,armatture,armaturre,armautre,armmature,armtaure,arrmature,ramature
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for armature
Misspelling Variants of "armature"
Frequency rank: #27,696 in French
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