amparo
"amparo" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amparo” is an uncommon English word, ranked #86,009 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,009
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In some Hispanic jurisdictions (such as Mexico) a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amparo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amparo” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for amparo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #86,009 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In some Hispanic jurisdictions (such as Mexico) a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a...".
No misspelling variants are generated for amparo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish amparo. The correct English form is amparo, spelled A-M-P-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1In some Hispanic jurisdictions (such as Mexico) a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a person's constitutional rights thereby invalidating any laws preventing said person from exercising them.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish amparo.
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 “amparo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-P-A-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.