America
/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/
"america" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“America” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #603. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #603
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
Corpus desk
Index EN-america · America · English
America · rank #603 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #603
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH 0
Nearest frequency peer: 0 (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “America”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- term
term
99,401 corpus weight
- wife
wife
99,400 corpus weight
- 0
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99,399 corpus weight
- America
America
99,398 corpus weight
- beautiful
beautiful
99,397 corpus weight
- date
date
99,396 corpus weight
What this shows “America” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | America |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “America”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around America (IPA /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #603 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for America, with forms such as "aemrica", "ameirca", and "amercia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "American", "Americas", "Americana", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Germanic *amalą Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder. Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-… The correct English form is America, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas.
- 2A country in North America; in full, United States of America.
- 3A female given name.
- 4A town in Limburg, Netherlands.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how America appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The results of my examination ... for the most part allied to plants of the cooler part of America, or the uplands of the tropical latitudes ...
the Marsupials or pouched animals, being found throughout the continent of America, from the United States to Patagonia
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Germanic *amalą Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder. Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz ▲ Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.? Italian Amerigoder. New Latin Americalbor. English America Learned borrowing from New Latin America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from a Germanic language and is etymologically related to Henry and Emmerich. The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more. Although this is the most widely accepted derivation, it has also been suggested that it could originate from the name of the Amerrisque mountains in Nicaragua (from Mayan), and another disputed theory is that it derives from the surname of Richard Amerike (1440–1503), whose surname is an anglicised form of Welsh ap Meurig (“son of Meurig”), from Old Welsh Mouric, which could be a rendition of Latin Mauritius (compare Maurice).
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aemrica
- ameirca
- amercia
- ameriac
- americca
- amerrica
- ammerica
- amreica
- maerica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of America - 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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