amarre
\a.maʁ\
The verdict
“amarre” is uncommon French (frequency #68,794 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,794
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cordage servant à arrêter un bâtiment à terre ou à l’attacher à un autre bâtiment, et en général tout cordage qu’on emploie à attacher divers objets dans un navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amarre · amarre · French
amarre · rank #68,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,794
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amandier
Nearest frequency peer: amandier (-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 « amarre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allégements
allégements
31,210 corpus weight
- alva
alva
31,209 corpus weight
- amandier
amandier
31,208 corpus weight
- amarre
amarre
31,207 corpus weight
- amparo
amparo
31,204 corpus weight
- amygdale
amygdale
31,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amarre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amarre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amarre is uncommon French at frequency #68,794 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for amarre in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is amarre, spelled A-M-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Cordage servant à arrêter un bâtiment à terre ou à l’attacher à un autre bâtiment, et en général tout cordage qu’on emploie à attacher divers objets dans un navire.
- 2Corde, ficelle, câble servant à attacher ou à lier.
- 3Morceau de bois, allant par paire, percé au milieu, dans lequel l’on passait le bout d’un moulinet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il flottait tranquillement sur les eaux du lagon, retenu au rivage par une forte amarre.
– Décapités et leurs têtes, percées d’outre en outre, étaient enfilées sur une amarre comme un horrible chapelet.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).