ambre jaune
\ɑ̃.bʁə.ʒon\
The verdict
“ambre jaune” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oléorésine fossile plus ou moins transparente, d’une couleur jaunâtre plus ou moins foncée, et susceptible d’un beau poli. Elle est formée de carbone, d’hydrogène et d’oxygène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambre jaune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.bʁə.ʒon\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ambre jaune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ambre jaune is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.bʁə.ʒon\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Oléorésine fossile plus ou moins transparente, d’une couleur jaunâtre plus ou moins foncée, et susceptible d’un beau poli. Elle est formée de carbone, d’hydrogène et d’oxygène.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ambre jaune, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ambre jaune, spelled A-M-B-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Oléorésine fossile plus ou moins transparente, d’une couleur jaunâtre plus ou moins foncée, et susceptible d’un beau poli. Elle est formée de carbone, d’hydrogène et d’oxygène.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ambre jaune”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-M-B-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɑ̃.bʁə.ʒon\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.