américain
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#714
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
américain is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à l’Amérique. Pronounced \a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\. It ranks #714 in French word frequency. Often confused with American and Americans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | américain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for américain is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.me.ʁi.kɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #714 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for américain, with forms such as "americain", "amméricain", and "amréicain". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "American", "Americans", "américaine", 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 américain, spelled A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Amérique.
- 2Qualifie les cépages des vignes issues de l’Amérique du Nord et que l’on utilise comme porte-greffes pour lutter contre le phylloxéra.
- 3Relatif aux États-Unis d’Amérique.
- 4Relatif aux Amérindiens.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: americain,amméricain,amréicain,améircain,amérciain,amériacin,américainn,américani,américcain,américian,amérricain,aémricain,maéricain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "américain"
Frequency rank: #714 in French
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Nearby French words
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