amour
a·mour/əˈmʊɹ/noun
amour is spelled A-M-O-U-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables (a·mour). It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “amor vs amour” about 90 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, amour means “Courtship; flirtation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of amour is amours.
How many letters and syllables are in amour?
| Letters | 5: A-M-O-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: a·mour |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 common is amour?
Amour appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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 amour?
- UK /əˈmʊə/
- UK /aˈmʊə/
- US /əˈmʊɹ/
Amour has 2 syllables, split a·mour in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-amour.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with amour
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: amor.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with amour?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as amour from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹ/):
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 amour
- amours plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amour mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Courtship; flirtation.
- 2
A love affair.
- 3
A lover.
- 4
obsoleteLove, affection.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does amour come from?
Inherited from Middle English amour, from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor. The modern pronunciation is due to continual French influence; the expected pronunciation would be /ˈæmə(ɹ)/; compare enamour, enamoured.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).