ambre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,062
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ambre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oléorésine fossile provenant d’arbres résineux utilisée pour la fabrication d’objets ornementaux → voir ambre jaune et succin. Pronounced \ɑ̃bʁ\. Often confused with âme and are.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ambre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,062 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambre, with forms such as "abmre", "ambbre", and "ambrre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "âme", "are", "amie", 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 ambre, spelled A-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oléorésine fossile provenant d’arbres résineux utilisée pour la fabrication d’objets ornementaux → voir ambre jaune et succin.
- 2Ambre gris.
- 3Parfum ou odeur de l’ambre gris.
- 4Couleur variant du jaune citron au brun sombre, tirant son nom de l’ambre jaune.
- 5Nom donné à l'un des trois codon-stop par un étudiant qui l’a découvert, il se nommait Bernstein « ambre » en allemand. C'est le codon UAG.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abmre,ambbre,ambrre,ammbre,amrbe,mabre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ambre
Misspelling Variants of "ambre"
Frequency rank: #17,062 in French
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