armure
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,632
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
armure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de l’équipement défensif qui protège le corps ou les membres, comme la cuirasse, le casque, etc. Pronounced \aʁ.myʁ\. Often confused with Aure and Artur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | armure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.myʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for armure is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \aʁ.myʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,632 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for armure, with forms such as "amrure", "armmure", and "armrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Aure", "Artur", "assuré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is armure, spelled A-R-M-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de l’équipement défensif qui protège le corps ou les membres, comme la cuirasse, le casque, etc.
- 2enveloppe qui protège.
- 3Altérations, représentées à la clé d’une portée, caractérisant la tonalité d’un passage musical.
- 4Ordre dans lequel les fils de chaîne croisent les fils de trame et produit le motif prévu par l'armure.
- 5Couverture, ou enveloppe grossière des rames de papier fin, qui est formée de deux trasses ou feuilles de gros papier bleu ou gris.
- 6Armature.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrure,armmure,armrue,armuer,armurre,arrmure,arumre,ramure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for armure
Misspelling Variants of "armure"
Frequency rank: #10,632 in French
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