béton armé
\be.tɔ̃ aʁ.me\
The verdict
“béton armé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matériau de construction constitué d’une armature métallique incorporée dans une masse de béton, de ciment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beton-arme · béton armé · French
béton armé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | béton armé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.tɔ̃ aʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
béton armé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.tɔ̃ aʁ.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matériau de construction constitué d’une armature métallique incorporée dans une masse de béton, de ciment.".
béton armé has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is béton armé, spelled B-É-T-O-N- -A-R-M-É.
Definition
- 1Matériau de construction constitué d’une armature métallique incorporée dans une masse de béton, de ciment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how béton armé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce crible fournit 4 classes de matériaux : 0-4, 4-10, 10-30, 30-60, qui sont soit déversés dans 4 silos en béton armé, soit ramenés au moyen de goulottes au gravillonneur giratoire Kennedy nᵒ 315 […].
Le gouverneur éhontément corrompu de Saxe, Martin Mutschmann, avait ignoré les appels des officiels de la ville à la construction d'abris solides, même s'il avait fait construire par les SS des bunkers de béton armé sous son bureau et dans le jardin de son domicile.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.