amarrer
\a.ma.ʁe\
The verdict
“amarrer” is uncommon French (frequency #53,758 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,758
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lier à l’aide d’une corde ou d’un câble à un autre objet dans le but d’éviter que l’un ne s’éloigne de l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amarrer · amarrer · French
amarrer · rank #53,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,758
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amandiers
Nearest frequency peer: amandiers (-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 « amarrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altérés
altérés
46,246 corpus weight
- Amalia
Amalia
46,245 corpus weight
- amandiers
amandiers
46,244 corpus weight
- amarrer
amarrer
46,243 corpus weight
- ambages
ambages
46,242 corpus weight
- ambrée
ambrée
46,241 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amarrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amarrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ma.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amarrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amarrer is uncommon French at frequency #53,758 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ma.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for amarrer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is amarrer, spelled A-M-A-R-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lier à l’aide d’une corde ou d’un câble à un autre objet dans le but d’éviter que l’un ne s’éloigne de l’autre.
- 2Lier à l’aide d’un bout d’amarrage ou une amarre un bateau au quai ou à un autre bateau.
- 3Arrêter, aborder quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amarrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moyen de palans je « roidis » les étais et j'amarre le beaupré aussi solidement qu'il est possible sur le pont maintenant rasé à l'avant.
Et Jean-Marie, malgré la rafale, malgré les soubresauts du brick, grimpait au mât de misaine pour amarrer le hunier qui flottait au vent comme un drapeau.
Antonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).