amadou
/ˈæ.mə.duː/
"amadou" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amadou” is uncommon English (frequency #70,449 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,449
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amadou · amadou · English
amadou · rank #70,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,449
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ambassadorial
Nearest frequency peer: ambassadorial (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “amadou”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Allu
Allu
29,556 corpus weight
- Alsop
Alsop
29,555 corpus weight
- amadou
amadou
29,552 corpus weight
- ambassadori…
ambassadorial
29,551 corpus weight
- amici
amici
29,550 corpus weight
- ampicillin
ampicillin
29,549 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “amadou” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amadou |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæ.mə.duː/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “amadou” in English
Rare enough to double-check
amadou is uncommon English at frequency #70,449 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæ.mə.duː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.".
Zero misspellings are on record for amadou in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French amadou (“tinder, lure, bait”), from amadouer (“to allure, caress”), perhaps from Icelandic mata (“to feed”), which is akin to English meat. The correct English form is amadou, spelled A-M-A-D-O-U.
Definition
- 1A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
Etymology
From French amadou (“tinder, lure, bait”), from amadouer (“to allure, caress”), perhaps from Icelandic mata (“to feed”), which is akin to English meat.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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