amateurs
\a.ma.tœʁ\
The verdict
“amateurs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,733
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de amateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amateurs · amateurs · French
amateurs · rank #3,733 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,733
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agricoles
Nearest frequency peer: agricoles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « amateurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- acquisition
acquisition
96,271 corpus weight
- africains
africains
96,270 corpus weight
- agricoles
agricoles
96,269 corpus weight
- amateurs
amateurs
96,268 corpus weight
- apprécier
apprécier
96,267 corpus weight
- arrivés
arrivés
96,266 corpus weight
What this shows « amateurs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amateurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ma.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amateurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around amateurs (IPA \a.ma.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,733 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de amateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for amateurs, with forms such as "aamteurs", "amaeturs", and "amaterus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "auteurs", "armateur", "armateurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is amateurs, spelled A-M-A-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de amateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how amateurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai eu d’excellents professeurs. Entre autres ces « gens de métier », critiques professionnels ou amateurs, attachés de presse, scribouillards de moindre importance qui termitent la plupart des manifestations artistiques, des grands festivals aux petites premières, ces eunuques de la création, Trissotins et Vadius de la pellicule, qui attendent de faire…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamteurs
- amaeturs
- amaterus
- amateurrs
- amateurss
- amateusr
- amatteurs
- amatuers
- ammateurs
- amtaeurs
- maateurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amateurs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amateurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).