Amur
"amur" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amur” is uncommon English (frequency #54,002 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,002
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-amur · Amur · English
Amur · rank #54,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,002
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ananda
Nearest frequency peer: Ananda (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Amur”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alumnae
alumnae
46,003 corpus weight
- Ameer
Ameer
46,001 corpus weight
- Amur
Amur
45,999 corpus weight
- Ananda
Ananda
45,998 corpus weight
- animatronic
animatronic
45,996 corpus weight
- anisotropic
anisotropic
45,995 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Amur” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Amur” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Amur is uncommon English at frequency #54,002 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Amur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of amur. The correct English form is Amur, spelled A-M-U-R.
Definition
- 1The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.
- 2An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Amur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If, then, the southern districts of European Russia be exposed to a winter more severe than those of France or Germany, they may boast in their turn a more genial climate than the banks of the Ural and the Amur; while all are subject to a dispensation of nature which extends too far, and acts too uniformly, to be ascribed to any local or temporary causes.
Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of amur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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