amante
\a.mɑ̃t\
The verdict
“amante” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,955
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Celle qui a de l’amour pour une autre personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amante · amante · French
amante · rank #26,955 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,955
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH altéré
Nearest frequency peer: altéré (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « amante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aisselles
aisselles
73,049 corpus weight
- aldo
aldo
73,048 corpus weight
- altéré
altéré
73,047 corpus weight
- amante
amante
73,046 corpus weight
- Amédée
Amédée
73,044 corpus weight
- antillais
antillais
73,043 corpus weight
What this shows « amante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around amante (IPA \a.mɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,955 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for amante, with forms such as "aamnte", "amanet", and "amannte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ante", "avant", "ayant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 amante, spelled A-M-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1ou Celle qui a de l’amour pour une autre personne.
- 2ou Celle qui aime quelque chose avec passion.
- 3Celle qui reçoit les faveurs d’un homme (ou, plus rarement, d’une femme) avec lequel elle n’est pas mariée.
- 4Celle qui donne du plaisir sexuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les principaux acteurs étaient M. de Voltaire qui s'était chargé des rôles de vieillards, madame Denis qui jouait les amantes passionnées, un imprimeur de Genève, appelé Craner, qu’on habillait en Gengis-kan ou en Orosmane, et Chabanon qui avait l’emploi des jeunes premiers.
Thomyra est l’amie et l’amante de la belle fille qui se nomme Penthésilée, et elle craint de perdre une affection qui lui est chère, si elle devient grosse des œuvres du captif.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamnte
- amanet
- amannte
- amantte
- amatne
- ammante
- amnate
- maante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amante - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).