army

\ˈɑɹ.mi\

/\ˈɑɹ.mi\/ noun

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The verdict

“army” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,358
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Armée (plus particulièrement armée de terre), groupe organisé de soldats.

Corpus desk

Index FR-army · army · French

army · rank #20,358 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,358
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH armoiries

Nearest frequency peer: armoiries (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « army »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « army » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

army vs Art
25% similar
army vs ars
50% similar
army vs asm
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for army
PropertyValue
Headwordarmy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈɑɹ.mi\
Letters4
Frequency rank#20,358
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « army »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).armyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « armoiries » (#20,357), « arrêta » (#20,359), « Ariège » (#20,356). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « army » est au #20,358. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around army (IPA \ˈɑɹ.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,358 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for army, with forms such as "armmy", "armyy", and "arrmy". 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, "Art", "ars", "asm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is army, spelled A-R-M-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Armée (plus particulièrement armée de terre), groupe organisé de soldats.
  2. 2
    Armée, multitude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how army appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. In 2000 the army acquired six vehicles for testing a new self-propelled rocket-launcher eventually designated the M142 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • armmy
  • armyy
  • arrmy
  • arym
  • ramy

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of army - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

armmy1armyy1arrmy1arym2ramy2
Edit distance from "army"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "army"?
"army" is spelled A-R-M-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈɑɹ.mi\.
What does "army" mean?
As a noun, "army" means: Armée (plus particulièrement armée de terre), groupe organisé de soldats.
What words are commonly confused with "army"?
"army" is commonly confused with "Art", "ars", "asm". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "army"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "army" is \ˈɑɹ.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "army" come from?
"army" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "army", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

away#20,367boko#20,375Yale#20,318sine#20,282

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Carrie5 variantsGaël5 variantspouf5 variantsmage5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list