amber
\ˈæm.bɚ\
The verdict
“amber” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,061
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ambre, ambre jaune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amber · amber · French
amber · rank #17,061 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,061
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aléas
Nearest frequency peer: aléas (-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 « amber »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Alonso
Alonso
82,943 corpus weight
- alsacien
alsacien
82,942 corpus weight
- aléas
aléas
82,941 corpus weight
- amber
amber
82,940 corpus weight
- ambre
ambre
82,939 corpus weight
- amusante
amusante
82,938 corpus weight
What this shows « amber » 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 | amber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈæm.bɚ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amber »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around amber (IPA \ˈæm.bɚ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,061 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for amber, with forms such as "abmer", "ambber", and "amberr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "âme", "amie", "aube", 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 amber, spelled A-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ambre, ambre jaune.
- 2Couleur d’ambre.
- 3Feu orange.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmer
- ambber
- amberr
- amebr
- ammber
- maber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amber - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).