amarante
\a.ma.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“amarante” is uncommon French (frequency #57,739 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,739
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante d’automne de la famille des Amaranthaceae (Amaranthacées), appartenant au genre Amaranthus, et dont la fleur est ordinairement d’un rouge de pourpre velouté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amarante · amarante · French
amarante · rank #57,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,739
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alourdi
Nearest frequency peer: alourdi (-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 « amarante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alb
alb
42,265 corpus weight
- alligators
alligators
42,264 corpus weight
- alourdi
alourdi
42,263 corpus weight
- amarante
amarante
42,262 corpus weight
- amato
amato
42,261 corpus weight
- amniotique
amniotique
42,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amarante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amarante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amarante is uncommon French at frequency #57,739 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ma.ʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amarante, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is amarante, spelled A-M-A-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Plante d’automne de la famille des Amaranthaceae (Amaranthacées), appartenant au genre Amaranthus, et dont la fleur est ordinairement d’un rouge de pourpre velouté.
- 2La fleur elle-même.
- 3Graine comestible de Amaranthus caudatus et de Amaranthus hypochondriacus que l'on mange après cuisson et que l'on nomme aussi kiwicha.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amarante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En présence d’amarantes, la mésotrione nettement plus efficace sera préférée au Mikado. Hormis les amarantes, la mésotrione et la sulcotrione ont des efficacités assez proches.
De la graine d’amarante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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