amans
\a.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“amans” is uncommon French (frequency #60,532 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,532
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien pluriel de amant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amans · amans · French
amans · rank #60,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,532
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alémanique
Nearest frequency peer: alémanique (-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 « amans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altermondia…
altermondialiste
39,472 corpus weight
- altérées
altérées
39,471 corpus weight
- alémanique
alémanique
39,470 corpus weight
- amans
amans
39,469 corpus weight
- amphore
amphore
39,468 corpus weight
- amplifiées
amplifiées
39,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amans is uncommon French at frequency #60,532 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien pluriel de amant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amans, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is amans, spelled A-M-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Ancien pluriel de amant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais combien depuis ce temps là y a il eu de misérables et infortunez amans qui ont curieusement recherché, mais en vain, le lieu de ces fontaines dans les Ardennes pour tascher par l’une de metre fin à leur maladie désespérée, et semble pour parler romancièrement que les fées les ayent faict disparoitre du tout pour l’envie qu’elles portoient à la guéris…
[…] que les amans de Théodora furent chassés de son lit par des démons leurs rivaux […]
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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