armé

\aʁ.me\

/\aʁ.me\/ adj

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The verdict

“armé” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,547
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est équipé d’armes

Corpus desk

Index FR-arme · armé · French

armé · rank #4,547 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,547
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appuyer

Nearest frequency peer: appuyer (-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 « armé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « armé » 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).

armé vs Art
25% similar
armé vs axe
25% similar
armé vs ave
25% similar

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

Key facts for armé
PropertyValue
Headwordarmé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aʁ.me\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,547
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).armése place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « appuyer » (#4,546), « Baby » (#4,548), « agriculteurs » (#4,545). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armé » est au #4,547. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around armé (IPA \aʁ.me\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,547 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for armé, with forms such as "amré", "arme", and "armmé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Art", "axe", "ave", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is armé, spelled A-R-M-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est équipé d’armes
  2. 2
    Signifie, en parlant des choses, qui est garni, muni, pourvu de.
  3. 3
    Renforcé par une armature.
  4. 4
    Qualifie les griffes d’un animal héraldique lorsqu’elles sont d’un autre émail que le corps.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Qui aime sans être aimé, de mauvaises armes est armé.
  2. En retour, le Kremlin ne commente pas le soutien turc à l’Ukraine. Or, celui-ci inclut la livraison à Kiev de matériel militaire, dont les célèbres drones armés Barayktar, qui ont fait des dégâts depuis le 24 février dans les colonnes de tanks russes.

This word in other languages

armed(English)armado(Español)bewehrt(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amré
  • arme
  • armmé
  • arrmé
  • arém
  • ramé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armé - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amré2arme1armmé1arrmé1arém2ramé2
Edit distance from "armé"

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 "armé"?
"armé" is spelled A-R-M-É. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.me\.
What does "armé" mean?
As an adjective, "armé" means: Qui est équipé d’armes
What words are commonly confused with "armé"?
"armé" is commonly confused with "Art", "axe", "ave". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armé" is \aʁ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armé" come from?
"armé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Baby#4,548boss#4,552vols#4,539mien#4,509

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

durer6 variantsRouen6 variantsnoble6 variantsJeanne6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list