arms
\ɑːmz\
The verdict
“arms” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,175) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,175
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Armoiries, blason.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arms · arms · French
arms · rank #37,175 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,175
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH AQMI
Nearest frequency peer: AQMI (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « arms »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- animait
animait
62,829 corpus weight
- appliques
appliques
62,828 corpus weight
- AQMI
AQMI
62,827 corpus weight
- arms
arms
62,826 corpus weight
- arpenter
arpenter
62,825 corpus weight
- arrachant
arrachant
62,824 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « arms » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑːmz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « arms »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for arms is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "Art", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɑːmz\. Frequency #37,175 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Armoiries, blason.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for arms, with forms such as "armms", "armss", and "arrms". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "Art", "ars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arms, spelled A-R-M-S.
Definition
- 1Armoiries, blason.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- armms
- armss
- arrms
- arsm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arms - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).