amazone
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,468
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
amazone is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme faisant partie de tribus guerrières où aucun homme n’était admis. Pronounced \a.ma.zon\. Often confused with Amazonie and Amazones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amazone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ma.zon\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amazone is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ma.zon\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,468 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for amazone, with forms such as "aamzone", "amaozne", and "amaznoe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Amazonie", "Amazones", "Amazon", 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 amazone, spelled A-M-A-Z-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme faisant partie de tribus guerrières où aucun homme n’était admis.
- 2Femme volontaire et indépendante, d’un courage communément associé selon le stéréotype à la virilité.
- 3Femme qui monte à cheval.
- 4Robe, ordinairement de drap, que les femmes portent pour monter à cheval.
- 5Genre d’oiseau comprenant une trentaine d’espèces de la famille des psittacidés (e.g. perroquets, aras, etc.) exclusives aux forêts humides de l’Amérique tropicale, de taille moyenne (25 à 45 cm selon les espèces), à la silhouette compacte et robuste avec une tête massive, un corps trapu, des ailes larges et une queue courte et carrée (genre Amazona).
- 6Tricheuse.
- 7Femme prostituée en voiture luxueuse que les prostitueurs recherchaient dans les beaux quartiers de Paris, près des Champs-Élysées.
- 8Une des préparations de l’absinthe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamzone,amaozne,amaznoe,amazoen,amazonne,amazzone,ammazone,amzaone,maazone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amazone
Misspelling Variants of "amazone"
Frequency rank: #24,468 in French
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