amarillo
\a.maˈɾi.ʎo\
The verdict
“amarillo” is uncommon French (frequency #73,699 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,699
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jaune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amarillo · amarillo · French
amarillo · rank #73,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,699
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alternés
Nearest frequency peer: alternés (-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 « amarillo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allaitent
allaitent
26,305 corpus weight
- alte
alte
26,304 corpus weight
- alternés
alternés
26,303 corpus weight
- amarillo
amarillo
26,302 corpus weight
- amassées
amassées
26,301 corpus weight
- amputations
amputations
26,299 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amarillo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarillo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.maˈɾi.ʎo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amarillo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amarillo is uncommon French at frequency #73,699 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.maˈɾi.ʎo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jaune.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amarillo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is amarillo, spelled A-M-A-R-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Jaune.
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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