amatrice
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,131
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
amatrice is aFrenchnoun. It means: (Suivi de « de ») Celle qui a de l’attachement, du goût pour quelque chose. Pronounced \a.ma.tʁis\. Often confused with avarice and autrice.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amatrice is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ma.tʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,131 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is amatrice, spelled A-M-A-T-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamtrice,amartice,amatirce,amatrcie,amatricce,amatriec,amatrrice,amattrice,ammatrice,amtarice,maatrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amatrice
Misspelling Variants of "amatrice"
Frequency rank: #38,131 in French
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