amendement

/\a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,162

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

amendement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’amender et résultat de cette action. Pronounced \a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. It ranks #6,162 in French word frequency. Often confused with avènement and amèrement.

Key facts for amendement
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Headwordamendement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#6,162
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for amendement is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,162 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for amendement, with forms such as "aemndement", "amednement", and "amenddement". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "avènement", "amèrement", "amendements", 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 amendement, spelled A-M-E-N-D-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’amender et résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Fait d'amender ou de s'amender dans le sens où apparaît une résipiscence, une amélioration, un mieux.
  3. 3
    Diminution de l'intensité des symptômes d’une maladie.
  4. 4
    Opération visant à améliorer les propriétés physiques et chimiques d’un sol.
  5. 5
    Produit épandu sur le sol pour provoquer cette amélioration.
  6. 6
    Texte modifiant un précédent texte de nature juridique.
  7. 7
    Texte modifiant un précédent texte de nature juridique.
  8. 8
    Texte modifiant un précédent texte de nature juridique.
  9. 9
    Modification d’un jugement.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aemndement,amednement,amenddement,amendeemnt,amendemennt,amendementt,amendemetn,amendemment,amendemnet,amendmeent,amenedment,amenndement,ammendement,amnedement,maendement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amendement

Misspelling Variants of "amendement"

aemndement10amednement10amenddement11amendeemnt10amendemennt11amendementt11amendemetn10amendemment11
Misspelling Variants of "amendement"

Frequency rank: #6,162 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amendement"?
"amendement" is spelled A-M-E-N-D-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\.
What does "amendement" mean?
As a noun, "amendement" means: Action d’amender et résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "amendement"?
"amendement" is commonly confused with "avènement", "amèrement", "amendements". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amendement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amendement" is \a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amendement" come from?
"amendement" 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.