Americus
/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/
"americus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Americus” is an uncommon English word, ranked #93,394 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #93,394
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Americus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Americus” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Americus is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/. Corpus data places it at rank #93,394 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Americus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin Americus. The correct English form is Americus, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States.
- 2A census-designated place in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States.
- 3A small city in Lyon County, Kansas, United States.
- 4An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States.
- 5A male given name.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Americus.
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 “Americus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-E-R-I-C-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.