Amazonas

name

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The verdict

“Amazonas” is uncommon French (frequency #85,456 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,456
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des États fédérés du Brésil.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amazonas · Amazonas · French

Amazonas · rank #85,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,456
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amarrée

Nearest frequency peer: amarrée (-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 « Amazonas »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Amazonas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Amazonas
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmazonas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#85,456
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Amazonas » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Amazonastombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « amarrée » (#85,455), « ambulantes » (#85,457), « Altmann » (#85,454). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Amazonas » est au #85,456. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Amazonas is uncommon French at frequency #85,456 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des États fédérés du Brésil.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Amazonas in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Amazonas, spelled A-M-A-Z-O-N-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un des États fédérés du Brésil.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Amazonas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une zone déboisée et brûlée à Manicoré, État d’Amazonas, Brésil, en septembre 2022.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Amazonas"?
"Amazonas" is spelled A-M-A-Z-O-N-A-S.
What does "Amazonas" mean?
As a proper noun, "Amazonas" means: Un des États fédérés du Brésil.
What language does "Amazonas" come from?
"Amazonas" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Amazonas", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

allumera#85,453alertant#85,451antipape#85,467aguerrir#85,444

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list