armement

/\aʁ.mə.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,193

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

armement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’armer, de préparer en vue de la guerre. Pronounced \aʁ.mə.mɑ̃\. It ranks #8,193 in French word frequency. Often confused with arrêtent and armements.

Key facts for armement
PropertyValue
Headwordarmement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.mə.mɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,193
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of armement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for armement is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.mə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,193 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for armement, with forms such as "amrement", "aremment", and "armeemnt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêtent", "armements", "amènent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 armement, spelled A-R-M-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’armer, de préparer en vue de la guerre.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des armes qui constitue une partie de l’équipement d’un soldat.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des armes offensives d’un navire de guerre.
  4. 4
    Fin de la construction d’un bateau (pose de la peinture, pose des canots de sauvetage,…).
  5. 5
    Action d’armer un bâtiment en vue du commerce, en parlant de la marine marchande.
  6. 6
    Compagnie maritime.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amrement,aremment,armeemnt,armemennt,armementt,armemetn,armemment,armemnet,armmeent,armmement,arrmement,ramement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for armement

Misspelling Variants of "armement"

amrement8aremment8armeemnt8armemennt9armementt9armemetn8armemment9armemnet8
Misspelling Variants of "armement"

Frequency rank: #8,193 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "armement"?
"armement" is spelled A-R-M-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.mə.mɑ̃\.
What does "armement" mean?
As a noun, "armement" means: Action d’armer, de préparer en vue de la guerre.
What words are commonly confused with "armement"?
"armement" is commonly confused with "arrêtent", "armements", "amènent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armement" is \aʁ.mə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armement" come from?
"armement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.