armées

\aʁ.me\

/\aʁ.me\/ adj

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The verdict

“armées” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,980
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de armé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-armees · armées · French

armées · rank #2,980 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,980
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apparition

Nearest frequency peer: apparition (-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 « armées »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « armées » 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).

armées vs arms
67% similar
armées vs armés
83% similar
armées vs armer
67% similar

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

Key facts for armées
PropertyValue
Headwordarmées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\aʁ.me\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,980
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armées »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).arméesse 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 « apparition » (#2,979), « arrondissement » (#2,981), « alimentation » (#2,978). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armées » est au #2,980. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around armées (IPA \aʁ.me\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,980 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de armé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for armées, with forms such as "amrées", "armees", and "armeés". 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, "arms", "armés", "armer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is armées, spelled A-R-M-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de armé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il nous paraît donc impossible que la dame C. ait conservé dans chacune des siennes le rasoir dont on suppose qu’elles étaient armées ; et le lieu où ont été trouvés ces rasoirs, nous paraît une impossibilité, dans l’hypothèse du suicide.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrées
  • armees
  • armeés
  • armmées
  • arméess
  • armése
  • arrmées
  • arémes
  • ramées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armées - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amrées2armees1armeés2armmées1arméess1armése2arrmées1arémes2
Edit distance from "armées"

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 "armées"?
"armées" is spelled A-R-M-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.me\.
What does "armées" mean?
As an adjective, "armées" means: Féminin pluriel de armé.
What words are commonly confused with "armées"?
"armées" is commonly confused with "arms", "armés", "armer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armées" is \aʁ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armées" come from?
"armées" 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 "armées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ballon#2,983achète#2,976témoin#2,972tonnes#2,970

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

couronne9 variantscurieux9 variantsferont9 variantspoissons9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list