amer
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,629
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
amer is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a une saveur âpre et généralement désagréable, comme celle de la quinine ou du café. Pronounced \a.mɛʁ\. Often confused with ami and axe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amer is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,629 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for amer, with forms such as "aemr", "amerr", and "ammer". 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, "ami", "axe", "are", 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 amer, spelled A-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a une saveur âpre et généralement désagréable, comme celle de la quinine ou du café.
- 2Qui est mordant, offensant, blessant.
- 3Qui est pénible, triste, douloureux.
- 4Qui est vif au point d’être mordant, acéré, pénétrant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aemr,amerr,ammer,amre,maer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amer
Misspelling Variants of "amer"
Frequency rank: #10,629 in French
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