Amsterdam
/ˌæmstəˈdæm/
"amsterdam" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amsterdam” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,758
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; the capital city of the Netherlands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amsterdam · Amsterdam · English
Amsterdam · rank #6,758 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,758
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH analyst
Nearest frequency peer: analyst (+1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Amsterdam”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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93,246 corpus weight
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93,245 corpus weight
- Amsterdam
Amsterdam
93,243 corpus weight
- analyst
analyst
93,242 corpus weight
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Arabic
93,241 corpus weight
- Arctic
Arctic
93,240 corpus weight
What this shows “Amsterdam” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amsterdam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌæmstəˈdæm/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Amsterdam”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Amsterdam (IPA /ˌæmstəˈdæm/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,758 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 14 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amsterdam, with forms such as "ammsterdam", "amsetrdam", and "amssterdam". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam. The correct English form is Amsterdam, spelled A-M-S-T-E-R-D-A-M.
Definition
- 1A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; the capital city of the Netherlands.
- 2A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 3A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 4A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 5A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 6A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 7A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 8A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 9A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 10A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 11A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 12A number of places in the United States, most being named after the Dutch city:
- 13A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Buchanan, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 14A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Amsterdam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Dutch seat of government is not the metropolis of Amsterdam but The Hague.
While Amsterdam is the largest city in the province of Noord-Holland, Haarlem is the province capital.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammsterdam
- amsetrdam
- amssterdam
- amstedram
- amsteradm
- amsterdamm
- amsterddam
- amsterdma
- amsterrdam
- amstredam
- amstterdam
- amtserdam
- asmterdam
- masterdam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amsterdam - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Amsterdam", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).