americano
\a.me.ʁi.ka.no\
The verdict
“americano” is uncommon French (frequency #66,483 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,483
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cocktail à base de campari, de vermouth doux et d'eau de Seltz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-americano · americano · French
americano · rank #66,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,483
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amenuise
Nearest frequency peer: amenuise (-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 « americano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altermondia…
altermondialistes
33,521 corpus weight
- amenaient
amenaient
33,520 corpus weight
- amenuise
amenuise
33,519 corpus weight
- americano
americano
33,518 corpus weight
- amma
amma
33,517 corpus weight
- andrinople
andrinople
33,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « americano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | americano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.me.ʁi.ka.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « americano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
americano is uncommon French at frequency #66,483 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.me.ʁi.ka.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cocktail à base de campari, de vermouth doux et d'eau de Seltz.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for americano, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is americano, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Cocktail à base de campari, de vermouth doux et d'eau de Seltz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how americano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me lève, lui prends la main, la guide gentiment mais fermement vers son fauteuil, appelle le garçon, commande un americano et un scotch, sans lui lâcher la main.
Il commande un Americano, moins cher qu’un Cinzano ou qu’un Campari, et doit insister pour obtenir des olives et des pistaches qui lui coupent l'appétit.
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.
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