armorial
\aʁ.mɔ.ʁjal\
The verdict
“armorial” is uncommon French (frequency #70,393 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,393
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte aux armoiries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-armorial · armorial · French
armorial · rank #70,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,393
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arion
Nearest frequency peer: arion (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « armorial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arbalétriers
arbalétriers
29,611 corpus weight
- arion
arion
29,609 corpus weight
- armorial
armorial
29,608 corpus weight
- arquebuse
arquebuse
29,607 corpus weight
- arroge
arroge
29,606 corpus weight
- arrêteraient
arrêteraient
29,605 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « armorial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armorial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.mɔ.ʁjal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « armorial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
armorial is uncommon French at frequency #70,393 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʁ.mɔ.ʁjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
armorial has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is armorial, spelled A-R-M-O-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte aux armoiries.
- 2Qui se rapporte aux armoiries.
- 3Qui se rapporte aux armoiries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how armorial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Livre armorial.
Traité armorial.
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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