amatrice
\a.ma.tʁis\
The verdict
“amatrice” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,131
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Suivi de « de ») Celle qui a de l’attachement, du goût pour quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amatrice · amatrice · French
amatrice · rank #38,131 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,131
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alligator
Nearest frequency peer: Alligator (-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 « amatrice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alert
alert
61,873 corpus weight
- algébrique
algébrique
61,872 corpus weight
- Alligator
Alligator
61,871 corpus weight
- amatrice
amatrice
61,870 corpus weight
- ambulancier
ambulancier
61,869 corpus weight
- Angkor
Angkor
61,867 corpus weight
What this shows « amatrice » 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 | amatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amatrice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around amatrice (IPA \a.ma.tʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,131 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for amatrice, with forms such as "aamtrice", "amartice", and "amatirce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "avarice", "autrice", "apatride", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is amatrice, spelled A-M-A-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1(Suivi de « de ») Celle qui a de l’attachement, du goût pour quelque chose.
- 2(Précédé d’un nom) Celle qui exerce une activité de façon non professionnelle.
- 3Celle qui, ayant à faire une chose, s’en occupe négligemment.
- 4Celle qui pratique les sports sans en tirer aucun profit pécuniaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amatrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous croyons qu’on doit dire, pour être raisonnable, amatrice et autrice, en parlant d’une femme. Ceux qui disent amateur et auteur ressemblent aux gens qui se laissent avoir faim, ou se contentent de trop peu, auprès d’un arbre couvert de fruits, auxquels ils ne touchent pas par crainte ou par paresse. Les mots sont à nous, et s’ils ressemblent parfois a…
Une amatrice de sports d’hiver capable de vous tuer, de vous dévorer et de cacher le reste du corps là où personne ne pourrait jamais le trouver.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamtrice
- amartice
- amatirce
- amatrcie
- amatricce
- amatriec
- amatrrice
- amattrice
- ammatrice
- amtarice
- maatrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amatrice - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).