armoise
\aʁ.mwaz\
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
- aquarelliste
aquarelliste
11,680 corpus weight
- arad
arad
11,679 corpus weight
- argentiques
argentiques
11,678 corpus weight
- argileuses
argileuses
11,677 corpus weight
- armoise
armoise
11,674 corpus weight
- asservit
asservit
11,669 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « armoise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.mwaz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « armoise » en français
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
- 1Nom usuel donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Artemisia, de la famille des Asteraceae.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how armoise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des perdrix, entre les tiges d’armoise parfumée, se coulaient, leur lourd arrière-train laissant sur les herbes un sillage sitôt redressé.
[…] ; 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.
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