amende
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,508
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
amende is aFrenchnoun. It means: Peine pécuniaire imposée par la justice. Pronounced \a.mɑ̃d\. It ranks #3,508 in French word frequency. Often confused with amène and arène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amende |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amende is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɑ̃d\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,508 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for amende, with forms such as "aemnde", "amedne", and "amendde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "amène", "arène", "amère", 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 amende, spelled A-M-E-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Peine pécuniaire imposée par la justice.
- 2C’est la coutume de Lorris, les battus paient l’amende ou, simplement et plus ordinairement, Les battus paient l’amende : se dit en parlant de quelqu’un qui est condamné, tandis qu’il devrait être dédommagé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aemnde,amedne,amendde,amened,amennde,ammende,amnede,maende
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amende
Misspelling Variants of "amende"
Frequency rank: #3,508 in French
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