armas

noun

The verdict

“armas” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #906 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#906
frequency rank, Portuguese
5
letters
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural de arma

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

armas vs army
60% similar
armas vs asma
60% similar
armas vs atrás
40% similar

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

Key facts for armas
PropertyValue
Headwordarmas
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#906
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “armas” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). armas lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for armas is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #906 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural de arma".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for armas, with forms such as "amras", "arams", and "armass". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "army", "asma", "atrás", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is armas, spelled A-R-M-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural de arma

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amras,arams,armass,armmas,armsa,arrmas,ramas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armas - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amras2arams2armass1armmas1armsa2arrmas1ramas2
Edit distance from "armas"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "armas"?
"armas" is spelled A-R-M-A-S.
What does "armas" mean?
As a noun, "armas" means: plural de arma
What words are commonly confused with "armas"?
"armas" is commonly confused with "army", "asma", "atrás". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "armas" come from?
"armas" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Using “armas”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-R-M-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Don't mix it up with “army” - see the side-by-side comparison. armas vs army
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list