Armorique
\aʁ.mɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“Armorique” is uncommon French (frequency #51,278 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,278
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Large région côtière s’étendant de Pornic près de Nantes à Dieppe au nord du pays de Caux, qui recouvre donc l’actuelle région Bretagne, le nord-ouest de la région Pays de la Loire et la totalité d...
Corpus desk
Index FR-armorique · Armorique · French
Armorique · rank #51,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aristophane
Nearest frequency peer: Aristophane (-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 « Armorique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- archiduches…
archiduchesse
48,727 corpus weight
- arctiques
arctiques
48,726 corpus weight
- areas
areas
48,725 corpus weight
- Aristophane
Aristophane
48,724 corpus weight
- Armorique
Armorique
48,723 corpus weight
- arpenteur
arpenteur
48,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Armorique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Armorique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.mɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Armorique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Armorique is uncommon French at frequency #51,278 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \aʁ.mɔ.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Armorique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Armorique, spelled A-R-M-O-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Large région côtière s’étendant de Pornic près de Nantes à Dieppe au nord du pays de Caux, qui recouvre donc l’actuelle région Bretagne, le nord-ouest de la région Pays de la Loire et la totalité du littoral normand.
- 2La Bretagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Armorique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Bretons, ces émigrants celtiques venus de Grande-Bretagne au Vᵉ siècle de notre ère, avaient ramené en Armorique une langue très analogue à ce parler gaulois que d'ailleurs employait encore à cette époque, la population d'Auvergne.
La notion d’Armorique, qui est employée deux fois par César, ne se restreint pas à l’actuelle Bretagne.
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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