Amur
"amur" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amur” is an uncommon English word, ranked #54,002 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #54,002
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
| 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) |
Where “Amur” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Amur is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #54,002 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “Amur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-U-R - 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.