armas

noun

The verdict

“armas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#906
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,900
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural de arma

Corpus desk

Index PT-armas · armas · Portuguese

armas · rank #906 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #906
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,900
  • PHOTO-FINISH altura

Nearest frequency peer: altura (-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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “armas”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “armas” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

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).

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)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “armas”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.armascai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “altura” (#905), “tinham” (#904), “banda” (#908). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “armas” fica em #906. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around armas, anoun. Corpus frequency is #906 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Dezessete detidos e 38 armas apreendidas em fiscalização.

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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list