amarante
\a.ma.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“amarante” is uncommon French (frequency #57,739 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,739
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “amarante” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
amarante is uncommon French at frequency #57,739 among 424,905 “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.
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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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Using “amarante”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-M-A-R-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.