Amalia
/əˈmɑli.ə/
"amalia" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amalia” is uncommon English (frequency #52,138 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,138
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amalia · Amalia · English
Amalia · rank #52,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,138
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anaemia
Nearest frequency peer: anaemia (+2 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 “Amalia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Akers
Akers
47,868 corpus weight
- alanine
alanine
47,867 corpus weight
- Amalia
Amalia
47,863 corpus weight
- anaemia
anaemia
47,861 corpus weight
- Andie
Andie
47,859 corpus weight
- Andrus
Andrus
47,858 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Amalia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amalia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈmɑli.ə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Amalia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Amalia is uncommon English at frequency #52,138 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /əˈmɑli.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Amalia, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amala-, a word of unknown meaning, like Ostrogothic Amalaberga and Amalafrida. The correct English form is Amalia, spelled A-M-A-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Amelia.
Etymology
Derived from Germanic compound names beginning with *amala-, a word of unknown meaning, like Ostrogothic Amalaberga and Amalafrida.
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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