arme de service
\aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\
The verdict
“arme de service” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arme de service |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “arme de service” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for arme de service is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁm də sɛʁ.vis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arme appartenant à un membre des forces de l’ordre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for arme de service in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 arme de service, spelled A-R-M-E- -D-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme appartenant à un membre des forces de l’ordre.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-R-M-E- -D-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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