aménorrhée

\a.me.nɔ.ʁe\

/\a.me.nɔ.ʁe\/ noun

The verdict

“aménorrhée” is uncommon French (frequency #73,704 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,704
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence de règles ou menstruation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amenorrhee · aménorrhée · French

aménorrhée · rank #73,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,704
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ampute

Nearest frequency peer: ampute (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « aménorrhée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aménorrhée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aménorrhée
PropertyValue
Headwordaménorrhée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.me.nɔ.ʁe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#73,704
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aménorrhée » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aménorrhéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ampute » (#73,703), « anachroniques » (#73,705), « amputations » (#73,702). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aménorrhée » est au #73,704. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aménorrhée is uncommon French at frequency #73,704 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.me.nɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Absence de règles ou menstruation.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aménorrhée, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aménorrhée, spelled A-M-É-N-O-R-R-H-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Absence de règles ou menstruation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aménorrhée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. … ; mais je leur opposerais volontiers les prescriptions d’une foule de praticiens qui, chez les jeunes filles -(…)-, devant des leucorrhées opiniâtres, des chloroses graves, des aménorrhées rebelles, recommandent le mariage comme seul remède de nature à mettre fin à ces maux.
  2. Un peu d’albumine et des cylindres, ce ne serait rien si tu étais comme tu l’espères. Mais je suis sûr maintenant que l’aménorrhée n’est, aussi, qu’un symptôme. Je ne sais pas de quoi d’ailleurs.

Synonyms

aménie

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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aménorrhée"?
"aménorrhée" is spelled A-M-É-N-O-R-R-H-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.me.nɔ.ʁe\.
What does "aménorrhée" mean?
As a noun, "aménorrhée" means: Absence de règles ou menstruation.
How do you pronounce "aménorrhée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aménorrhée" is \a.me.nɔ.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aménorrhée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list