amadou
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,853
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
amadou is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance végétale extraite principalement de l'amadouvier (Fomes fomentarius) mais aussi d'autres champignons dont la chair est coupée puis traitée à l'hydroxyde de potassium, c'est ce produit qui... Pronounced \a.ma.du\. Often confused with Amazon and amidon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amadou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.du\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amadou is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ma.du\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,853 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for amadou, with forms such as "aamdou", "amaddou", and "amaduo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Amazon", "amidon", "amadouer", 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 French form is amadou, spelled A-M-A-D-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance végétale extraite principalement de l'amadouvier (Fomes fomentarius) mais aussi d'autres champignons dont la chair est coupée puis traitée à l'hydroxyde de potassium, c'est ce produit qui une fois sec servait d'hémostatique. Pour être utilisée dans les briquets cette substance était ensuite nitrée
- 2Couleur noire similaire à celle de l’amadou.
- 3Trame d’un champignon parasite des arbres : l’amadouvier, Fomes fomentarius. Elle consiste en une substance duveteuse composée de milliers de fibres microscopiques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamdou,amaddou,amaduo,amaodu,amdaou,maadou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "amadou"
Frequency rank: #24,853 in French
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