amaro
\a.ma.ʁo\
The verdict
“amaro” is uncommon French (frequency #77,211 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,211
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liqueur alcoolisée de goût amer d’origine italienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amaro · amaro · French
amaro · rank #77,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,211
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alluviale
Nearest frequency peer: alluviale (-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 « amaro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aldéhyde
aldéhyde
22,793 corpus weight
- alet
alet
22,792 corpus weight
- alluviale
alluviale
22,791 corpus weight
- amaro
amaro
22,790 corpus weight
- amenuisent
amenuisent
22,789 corpus weight
- Americas
Americas
22,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amaro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amaro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amaro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amaro is uncommon French at frequency #77,211 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ma.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liqueur alcoolisée de goût amer d’origine italienne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for amaro in our index, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is amaro, spelled A-M-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Liqueur alcoolisée de goût amer d’origine italienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amaro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, c’est au mixologue Guillaume Quenza qu’on doit l’emploi le plus percutant de la mélasse de grenade, mélangée à vermouth, gin et amaro dans son cocktail Grenade, une bombinette d’artificier, quasiment.
Que savons-nous sur les amari?
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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