amárico
[aˈmaɾiko]
The verdict
“amárico” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lengua semítica desciende de la extinta lengua ge'ez. Es hablado en el norte y el centro de Etiopía, donde es lengua oficial. Toma su nombre de la etnia de los amhara, tradicionalmente habitantes d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amárico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmaɾiko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amárico” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
amárico is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈmaɾiko]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lengua semítica desciende de la extinta lengua ge'ez. Es hablado en el norte y el centro de Etiopía, donde es lengua oficial. Toma su nombre de la etnia de los amhara, tradicionalmente habitantes d...".
amárico doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is amárico, spelled A-M-Á-R-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1Lengua semítica desciende de la extinta lengua ge'ez. Es hablado en el norte y el centro de Etiopía, donde es lengua oficial. Toma su nombre de la etnia de los amhara, tradicionalmente habitantes del norte y centro de Etiopía. Fuera de Etiopía, el amárico es la lengua de 2,7 millones de emigrantes, que viven en Egipto, Israel y Suecia. También es hablada en Eritrea por los deportados eritreos procedentes de Etiopía. Es la segunda lengua semítica en cuanto a número de hablantes, por detrás del árabe y por delante de lenguas como el tigriña y el hebreo.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “amárico”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-M-Á-R-I-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈmaɾiko] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.