Amazonas
"amazonas" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amazonas” is uncommon English (frequency #72,937 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,937
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amazonas · Amazonas · English
Amazonas · rank #72,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,937
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Altuve
Nearest frequency peer: Altuve (-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 “Amazonas”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aker
aker
27,068 corpus weight
- Altuve
Altuve
27,065 corpus weight
- Amazonas
Amazonas
27,064 corpus weight
- Amharic
Amharic
27,062 corpus weight
- AMZN
AMZN
27,061 corpus weight
- anatomist
anatomist
27,060 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Amazonas” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amazonas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Amazonas” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Amazonas is uncommon English at frequency #72,937 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Amazonas has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon. The correct English form is Amazonas, spelled A-M-A-Z-O-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus.
- 2A department of Colombia.
- 3A region of Peru.
- 4A state of Venezuela.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).