amorous
/ˈæ.mɚ.əs/adjective
amorous is spelled A-M-O-R-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is amourous: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Amorous is an adjective meaning “Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment”.
How many letters and syllables are in amorous?
| Letters | 7: A-M-O-R-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, amourous, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell amorous?
Amorous is spelled A-M-O-R-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for amorous in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is amorous?
Amorous appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce amorous?
- /ˈæ.mə.ɹəs/
- /ˈæm.ɹəs/
- US /ˈæ.mɚ.əs/
Amorous has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-amorous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with amorous?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as amorous from its last stressed vowel (/æməɹəs/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of amorous
- more amorous comparative
- most amorous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amorous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
an amorous disposition
- 2
Indicating love or sexual desire.
She kept making these amorous suggestions.
- 3
Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
She read me an amorous poem.
- 4
datedAffected with love; in love; enamored.
He had been amorous of her since schooldays.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amorous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | amoureux |
| German | amourös, verliebt , anzüglich, erotisch |
| Portuguese | amoroso , enamorado |
| Spanish | concupisciente , enamorado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does amorous come from?
From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to amāre (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”). Doublet of amoroso and amoureux.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).