armoise

\aʁ.mwaz\

/\aʁ.mwaz\/ noun

The verdict

“armoise” is uncommon French (frequency #88,327 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,327
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Artemisia, de la famille des Asteraceae.

Corpus desk

Index FR-armoise · armoise · French

armoise · rank #88,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,327
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH argileuses

Nearest frequency peer: argileuses (-3 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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « armoise »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « armoise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for armoise
PropertyValue
Headwordarmoise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\aʁ.mwaz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#88,327
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « armoise » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.armoisetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « argileuses » (#88,324), « argentiques » (#88,323), « arad » (#88,322). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « armoise » est au #88,327. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

armoise is uncommon French at frequency #88,327 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.mwaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Artemisia, de la famille des Asteraceae.".

armoise doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is armoise, spelled A-R-M-O-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Artemisia, de la famille des Asteraceae.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Des perdrix, entre les tiges d’armoise parfumée, se coulaient, leur lourd arrière-train laissant sur les herbes un sillage sitôt redressé.
  2. […] ; la végétation, très dégradée, se réduit, pour l'ordinaire, à une garrigue appauvrie, à un tomillar parfumé, avec des plaques d’armoises et d’alfa ([…]).

This word in other languages

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 "armoise"?
"armoise" is spelled A-R-M-O-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \aʁ.mwaz\.
What does "armoise" mean?
As a noun, "armoise" means: Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Artemisia, de la famille des Asteraceae.
How do you pronounce "armoise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "armoise" is \aʁ.mwaz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list