armée

\aʁ.me\

/\aʁ.me\/ noun

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The verdict

“armée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #575. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#575
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble structuré de soldats, avec leur équipement et leurs infrastructures.

Corpus desk

Index FR-armee · armée · French

armée · rank #575 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #575
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH âge

Nearest frequency peer: âge (-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 « armée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « armée » 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).

armée vs arte
60% similar
armée vs axée
60% similar
armée vs army
60% similar

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

Key facts for armée
PropertyValue
Headwordarmée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.me\
Letters5
Frequency rank#575
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armée »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « âge » (#574), « bois » (#576), « chance » (#577). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armée » est au #575. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around armée (IPA \aʁ.me\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #575 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for armée, with forms such as "amrée", "armee", and "armeé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arte", "axée", "army", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is armée, spelled A-R-M-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble structuré de soldats, avec leur équipement et leurs infrastructures.
  2. 2
    Formation supérieure à un corps d’armée mais inférieure à un groupe d’armées, comprenant généralement deux corps d’armée ou davantage (définition normalisée par l’OTAN AAP-6 depuis 1983).
  3. 3
    La composante terrestre des forces armées.
  4. 4
    L’ensemble des forces armées.
  5. 5
    Grande quantité de personnes, d’animaux, d’objets similaires.
  6. 6
    Vaurien, vagabond.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La fin de tout, pour lui, était que la nation en armes n’était pas une armée.
  2. Son armée, mal recrutée, mal équipée, mal disciplinée, absolument démoralisée par ses défaites récentes, est réduite à fort peu de chose par les licenciements forcés et les désertions.

Synonyms

armearmée roulanteforceforce navaleforce terrestreforce d’interventiondrapeauost

This word in other languages

army(English)ejército(Español)Armee(Deutsch)exército(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrée
  • armee
  • armeé
  • armmée
  • arrmée
  • aréme
  • ramée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armée - 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.

amrée2armee1armeé2armmée1arrmée1aréme2ramée2
Edit distance from "armée"

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 "armée"?
"armée" is spelled A-R-M-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.me\.
What does "armée" mean?
As a noun, "armée" means: Ensemble structuré de soldats, avec leur équipement et leurs infrastructures.
What words are commonly confused with "armée"?
"armée" is commonly confused with "arte", "axée", "army". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armée" is \aʁ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armée" come from?
"armée" 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 "armée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mêmes#571états#563route#562blanc#596

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

milieu7 variantsaurais7 variantsclasse7 variantsvenir7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list