amazone

/\a.ma.zon\/ noun

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.

Key facts for amazone
PropertyValue
Headwordamazone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ma.zon\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,468
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of amazone in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Femme faisant partie de tribus guerrières où aucun homme n’était admis.
  2. 2
    Femme volontaire et indépendante, d’un courage communément associé selon le stéréotype à la virilité.
  3. 3
    Femme qui monte à cheval.
  4. 4
    Robe, ordinairement de drap, que les femmes portent pour monter à cheval.
  5. 5
    Genre 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).
  6. 6
    Tricheuse.
  7. 7
    Femme prostituée en voiture luxueuse que les prostitueurs recherchaient dans les beaux quartiers de Paris, près des Champs-Élysées.
  8. 8
    Une 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"

aamzone7amaozne7amaznoe7amazoen7amazonne8amazzone8ammazone8amzaone7
Misspelling Variants of "amazone"

Frequency rank: #24,468 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amazone"?
"amazone" is spelled A-M-A-Z-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ma.zon\.
What does "amazone" mean?
As a noun, "amazone" means: Femme faisant partie de tribus guerrières où aucun homme n’était admis.
What words are commonly confused with "amazone"?
"amazone" is commonly confused with "Amazonie", "Amazones", "Amazon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amazone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amazone" is \a.ma.zon\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amazone" come from?
"amazone" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.