réarmer
\ʁe.aʁ.me\
The verdict
“réarmer” is uncommon French (frequency #73,522 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,522
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Armer de nouveau. Il signifie particulièrement, armer un vaisseau qui a été désarmé pour réparation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rearmer · réarmer · French
réarmer · rank #73,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,522
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réagiront
Nearest frequency peer: réagiront (-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 « réarmer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rythmer
rythmer
26,482 corpus weight
- râteliers
râteliers
26,481 corpus weight
- réagiront
réagiront
26,480 corpus weight
- réarmer
réarmer
26,479 corpus weight
- rébarbatif
rébarbatif
26,478 corpus weight
- réconcilient
réconcilient
26,477 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réarmer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réarmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.aʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réarmer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réarmer is uncommon French at frequency #73,522 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.aʁ.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for réarmer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is réarmer, spelled R-É-A-R-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Armer de nouveau. Il signifie particulièrement, armer un vaisseau qui a été désarmé pour réparation.
- 2Remettre en fonction un dispositif qui a été déclenché.
- 3Remilitariser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réarmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On réarma à la hâte plusieurs vaisseaux.
Un déclic indiqua que l’officier avait réarmé son pistolet.
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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