armoire à glace
\aʁ.mwa.ʁ‿a ɡlas\
The verdict
“armoire à glace” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Armoire comportant un miroir sur sa ou ses portes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-armoire-a-glace · armoire à glace · French
armoire à glace · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armoire à glace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.mwa.ʁ‿a ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
armoire à glace is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.mwa.ʁ‿a ɡlas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for armoire à glace in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is armoire à glace, spelled A-R-M-O-I-R-E- -À- -G-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Armoire comportant un miroir sur sa ou ses portes.
- 2Personne à la carrure imposante, douée d’une très grande force.
- 3Sac à dos des fantassins de la Première Guerre mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how armoire à glace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leuwen remarqua que madame d’Hocquincourt, occupée de l’effet d’une attitude charmante, qu’elle regardait dans une armoire à glace voisine, cessait de le tourmenter sur madame de Chasteller.
Sur un papier rayé, quelque peu moisi, se détachait une armoire à glace, très lourde, en acajou ardent ;
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.