armistice

\aʁ.mis.tis\

/\aʁ.mis.tis\/ noun

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The verdict

“armistice” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,090
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêt des hostilités convenu par les combattants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-armistice · armistice · French

armistice · rank #15,090 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #15,090
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Aragon

Nearest frequency peer: Aragon (-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 « armistice »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « armistice » 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).

armistice vs Aristide
67% similar

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

Key facts for armistice
PropertyValue
Headwordarmistice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.mis.tis\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,090
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « armistice »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).armisticese 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 « Aragon » (#15,089), « arrêtées » (#15,091), « atome » (#15,092). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armistice » est au #15,090. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around armistice (IPA \aʁ.mis.tis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,090 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arrêt des hostilités convenu par les combattants.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for armistice, with forms such as "amristice", "arimstice", and "armisitce". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Aristide", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is armistice, spelled A-R-M-I-S-T-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arrêt des hostilités convenu par les combattants.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’armistice conclu entre les deux armées durera un mois après le jour où l’armée suédoise passera les frontières de la province d’Uleaborg, ou jusqu’au 12 janvier 1809, et l’armistice devra être dénoncé au moins quinze jours avant le renouvellement des hostilités.
  2. Le 5 février, les deux parlementaires apportent une copie authentique du traité conclu entre la France et l’Allemagne pour fixer les conditions de l’armistice.

This word in other languages

armistice(English)armisticio(Español)Waffenstillstand(Deutsch)armistício(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amristice
  • arimstice
  • armisitce
  • armisstice
  • armistcie
  • armisticce
  • armistiec
  • armisttice
  • armitsice
  • armmistice
  • armsitice
  • arrmistice
  • ramistice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amristice2arimstice2armisitce2armisstice1armistcie2armisticce1armistiec2armisttice1
Edit distance from "armistice"

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 "armistice"?
"armistice" is spelled A-R-M-I-S-T-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.mis.tis\.
What does "armistice" mean?
As a noun, "armistice" means: Arrêt des hostilités convenu par les combattants.
What words are commonly confused with "armistice"?
"armistice" is commonly confused with "Aristide". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "armistice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armistice" is \aʁ.mis.tis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "armistice" come from?
"armistice" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "armistice", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list