arme de service

\aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\

/\aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\/ noun

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The verdict

“arme de service” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arme appartenant à un membre des forces de l’ordre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arme-de-service · arme de service · French

arme de service · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for arme de service
PropertyValue
Headwordarme de service
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “arme de service” sits in French frequency

arme de service falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

arme de service is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arme appartenant à un membre des forces de l’ordre.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for arme de service in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arme de service, spelled A-R-M-E- -D-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arme appartenant à un membre des forces de l’ordre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. L’homme se serait dirigé vers un policier qui a fait usage de son arme de service.

This word in other languages

Dienstwaffe(Deutsch)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arme de service"?
"arme de service" is spelled A-R-M-E- -D-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\.
What does "arme de service" mean?
As a noun, "arme de service" means: Arme appartenant à un membre des forces de l’ordre.
How do you pronounce "arme de service"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arme de service" is \aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "arme de service" come from?
"arme de service" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list