amor
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#316
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
amor is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sentimiento afectivo de atracción, unión y afinidad que se experimenta hacia una persona, animal o cosa. Pronounced [aˈmoɾ]. It ranks #316 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ao and año.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈmoɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for amor is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈmoɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #316 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for amor, with forms such as "ammor", "amorr", and "amro". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ao", "año", "Amy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is amor, spelled A-M-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sentimiento afectivo de atracción, unión y afinidad que se experimenta hacia una persona, animal o cosa.
- 2Sentimiento de desear el bien y de tratar con suavidad o esmero.
- 3Tratamiento para la persona amada (vocativo), y la persona amada misma.
- 4Deseo, atracción, apetito o intercambio de tipo sexual.
- 5Dedicación, cuidado y goce en una actividad u obra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammor,amorr,amro,aomr,maor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amor
Misspelling Variants of "amor"
Frequency rank: #316 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Spanish index: