amender
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,442
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
amender is aFrenchverb. It means: Corriger, améliorer, rendre meilleur. Pronounced \a.mɑ̃.de\. Often confused with amène and amener.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amender |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.mɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amender is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɑ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,442 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for amender, with forms such as "aemnder", "amedner", and "amendder". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "amène", "amener", "amenés", 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 amender, spelled A-M-E-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corriger, améliorer, rendre meilleur.
- 2Améliorer la valeur agronomique d'un sol par des apports de calcaire, de chaux, ou de fumier, de matières humiques.
- 3Corriger un projet de loi ou une proposition de loi, lors des débats parlementaires, en vue de l’améliorer.
- 4Se corriger.
- 5Infliger une amende.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aemnder,amedner,amendder,amenderr,amendre,amenedr,amennder,ammender,amneder,maender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amender
Misspelling Variants of "amender"
Frequency rank: #28,442 in French
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