Amalfi
\a.mal.fi\
The verdict
“Amalfi” is uncommon French (frequency #70,370 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,370
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Italie de la province de Salerne dans la région de Campanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amalfi · Amalfi · French
Amalfi · rank #70,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,370
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alunissage
Nearest frequency peer: alunissage (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Amalfi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allèles
allèles
29,635 corpus weight
- allégeances
allégeances
29,634 corpus weight
- alunissage
alunissage
29,632 corpus weight
- Amalfi
Amalfi
29,631 corpus weight
- amusements
amusements
29,630 corpus weight
- anabaptistes
anabaptistes
29,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Amalfi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amalfi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.mal.fi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Amalfi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Amalfi is uncommon French at frequency #70,370 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.mal.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Italie de la province de Salerne dans la région de Campanie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Amalfi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 French form is Amalfi, spelled A-M-A-L-F-I.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Italie de la province de Salerne dans la région de Campanie.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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