Americus
/əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/
"americus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Americus” is uncommon English (frequency #93,394 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,394
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-americus · Americus · English
Americus · rank #93,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,394
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alvar
Nearest frequency peer: alvar (-3 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 “Americus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- allover
allover
6,613 corpus weight
- alvar
alvar
6,610 corpus weight
- Americus
Americus
6,607 corpus weight
- anciently
anciently
6,604 corpus weight
- anthill
anthill
6,602 corpus weight
- antivenom
antivenom
6,601 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Americus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Americus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Americus is uncommon English at frequency #93,394 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kʊs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).