American
\ə.ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən\
The verdict
“American” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,048
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Américain. Relatif aux États-Unis d’Amérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-american · American · French
American · rank #6,048 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,048
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allure
Nearest frequency peer: allure (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « American »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- XV
XV
93,956 corpus weight
- écrans
écrans
93,955 corpus weight
- allure
allure
93,954 corpus weight
- American
American
93,953 corpus weight
- animateur
animateur
93,952 corpus weight
- Asiatique
Asiatique
93,951 corpus weight
What this shows « American » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | American |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ə.ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « American »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around American (IPA \ə.ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,048 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for American, with forms such as "aemrican", "ameircan", and "amercian". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Americans", "african", "américain", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is American, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Américain. Relatif aux États-Unis d’Amérique.
- 2Américain. Relatif à l’Amérique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aemrican
- ameircan
- amercian
- ameriacn
- americann
- americcan
- americna
- amerrican
- ammerican
- amreican
- maerican
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of American - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "American", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).