armer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,304
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
armer is aFrenchverb. It means: Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper. Pronounced \aʁ.me\. Often confused with arte and army.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \aʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for armer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,304 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for armer, with forms such as "amrer", "aremr", and "armerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arte", "army", "arms", 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 armer, spelled A-R-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper.
- 2Lever des soldats, lever des troupes.
- 3Équiper un bâtiment, le pourvoir de tous les objets nécessaires pour le mettre en état de prendre la mer, qu’il s’agisse d’un bâtiment de guerre, de commerce ou de loisir.
- 4Enrôler un marin sur un navire.
- 5Exciter à prendre les armes.
- 6Garnir une Place de guerre, ses remparts, de pièces de canon.
- 7Mettre une arme en situation de fonctionner.
- 8Renforcer un objet ou un matériau par un autre objet ou matériau.
- 9Munir de certains pouvoirs, de certains moyens intellectuels ou autres de défense ou d’attaque.
- 10Attacher des sonnettes au faucon.
- 11Mettre à la clef le nombre de dièses ou de bémols convenables pour indiquer le ton dans lequel est écrit l’air ou le morceau instrumental.
- 12Résister.
- 13Garnir d’une protection une manœuvre.
- 14Enclencher un appareil photo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrer,aremr,armerr,armmer,armre,arrmer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "armer"
Frequency rank: #15,304 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: