Amara
"amara" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amara” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #45,200 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #45,200
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amara |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Amara” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Amara is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #45,200 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amara, with forms such as "aamra", "amaar", and "amarra". 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, "ara", "AMR", "aura", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is Amara, spelled A-M-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
- 2A port on the River Tigris in Iraq.
- 3A neighbourhood of San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamra,amaar,amarra,ammara,amraa,maara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amara - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Amara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ara” - see the side-by-side comparison. Amara vs ara
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English 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.