armer

\aʁ.me\

/\aʁ.me\/ verb

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The verdict

“armer” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,304
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper.

Corpus desk

Index FR-armer · armer · French

armer · rank #15,304 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,304
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appartenu

Nearest frequency peer: appartenu (-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 « armer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « armer » 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).

armer vs arte
60% similar
armer vs army
60% similar
armer vs arms
60% similar

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

Key facts for armer
PropertyValue
Headwordarmer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\aʁ.me\
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,304
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).armerse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « appartenu » (#15,303), « atypique » (#15,305), « altesse » (#15,302). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armer » est au #15,304. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around armer (IPA \aʁ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,304 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 14 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for armer, with forms such as "amrer", "aremr", and "armerr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arte", "army", "arms", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is armer, spelled A-R-M-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper.
  2. 2
    Lever des soldats, lever des troupes.
  3. 3
    Équiper 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.
  4. 4
    Enrôler un marin sur un navire.
  5. 5
    Exciter à prendre les armes.
  6. 6
    Garnir une Place de guerre, ses remparts, de pièces de canon.
  7. 7
    Mettre une arme en situation de fonctionner.
  8. 8
    Renforcer un objet ou un matériau par un autre objet ou matériau.
  9. 9
    Munir de certains pouvoirs, de certains moyens intellectuels ou autres de défense ou d’attaque.
  10. 10
    Attacher des sonnettes au faucon.
  11. 11
    Mettre 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.
  12. 12
    Résister.
  13. 13
    Garnir d’une protection une manœuvre.
  14. 14
    Enclencher un appareil photo.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cependant, par précaution, Jasper Hobson, le sergent et Mrs. Paulina Barnett elle-même s'armèrent de fusils.
  2. Nos grandes places de guerre, Strasbourg et Metz, les véritables boulevards de notre défense, n’avaient été ni armées, ni approvisionnées.

Synonyms

équiper

This word in other languages

arm(English)armar(Español)waffnen(Deutsch)armar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrer
  • aremr
  • armerr
  • armmer
  • armre
  • arrmer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amrer2aremr2armerr1armmer1armre2arrmer1
Edit distance from "armer"

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 "armer"?
"armer" is spelled A-R-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.me\.
What does "armer" mean?
As a verb, "armer" means: Pourvoir d’armes ; équiper.
What words are commonly confused with "armer"?
"armer" is commonly confused with "arte", "army", "arms". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armer" is \aʁ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armer" come from?
"armer" 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 "armer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Aisne#15,300banni#15,309agira#15,298Block#15,314

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

bacs6 variantsbugs6 variantstoussa6 variantssécu6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list