américaine

/\a.me.ʁi.kɛn\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,054

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

américaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voiture hippomobile, sorte de phaéton. Pronounced \a.me.ʁi.kɛn\. It ranks #1,054 in French word frequency. Often confused with American and Americans.

Key facts for américaine
PropertyValue
Headwordaméricaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.me.ʁi.kɛn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,054
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for américaine is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.me.ʁi.kɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,054 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for américaine, with forms such as "americaine", "amméricaine", and "amréicaine". 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", "américains", 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 américaine, spelled A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voiture hippomobile, sorte de phaéton.
  2. 2
    Voiture des États-Unis.
  3. 3
    Cigarette des États-Unis.
  4. 4
    Compétition de cyclisme sur piste se disputant avec des sprints intermédiaires et courue par équipes de deux coureurs.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: americaine,amméricaine,amréicaine,améircaine,amérciaine,amériacine,américaien,américainne,américanie,américcaine,américiane,amérricaine,aémricaine,maéricaine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for américaine

Misspelling Variants of "américaine"

americaine10amméricaine11amréicaine10améircaine10amérciaine10amériacine10américaien10américainne11
Misspelling Variants of "américaine"

Frequency rank: #1,054 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "américaine"?
"américaine" is spelled A-M-É-R-I-C-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.me.ʁi.kɛn\.
What does "américaine" mean?
As a noun, "américaine" means: Voiture hippomobile, sorte de phaéton.
What words are commonly confused with "américaine"?
"américaine" is commonly confused with "American", "Americans", "américains". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "américaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "américaine" is \a.me.ʁi.kɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "américaine" come from?
"américaine" 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.