amaryllis
\a.ma.ʁi.lis\
The verdict
“amaryllis” is uncommon French (frequency #89,367 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,367
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante d’ornement du genre Amaryllis , de la famille des Amaryllidacées (Amaryllidaceae).
Corpus desk
Index FR-amaryllis · amaryllis · French
amaryllis · rank #89,367 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,367
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambitionnait
Nearest frequency peer: ambitionnait (+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 « amaryllis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alessia
Alessia
10,638 corpus weight
- aliénée
aliénée
10,637 corpus weight
- allaitantes
allaitantes
10,636 corpus weight
- amaryllis
amaryllis
10,634 corpus weight
- ambitionnait
ambitionnait
10,633 corpus weight
- amida
amida
10,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amaryllis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amaryllis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.ʁi.lis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amaryllis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amaryllis is uncommon French at frequency #89,367 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ma.ʁi.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante d’ornement du genre Amaryllis , de la famille des Amaryllidacées (Amaryllidaceae).".
No misspelling variants are generated for amaryllis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is amaryllis, spelled A-M-A-R-Y-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Plante d’ornement du genre Amaryllis , de la famille des Amaryllidacées (Amaryllidaceae).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amaryllis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pays n’avait pas changé. Il était toujours fertile et riche en amaryllis, violettes arborescentes, fluschies, daturas et cactus à fleurs d’or.
Il ne faut pas confondre lʼamaryllis avec lʼhippeastrum qui est une plante dʼintérieur et fleurit au printemps.
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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