amas
French, noun/a.ma/
amas is spelled A-M-A-S (4 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amas is a French masculine noun meaning “pile, heap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agrégat de plusieurs choses réunies, accumulées comme en un seul tas”.
What does amas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepile, heap
- 2
masculinecluster
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Agrégat de plusieurs choses réunies, accumulées comme en un seul tas. 2. Se dit des liquides. 3. Recueil, fatras, collection. 4. Rassemblement de beaucoup de personnes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce amas?
- /a.ma/
- /a.mɑ/
- \a.ma\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amas in French?
amas appears 4.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).