Amérique

/\a.me.ʁik\/ name

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,219

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

Amérique is aFrenchname. It means: Continent séparant l’océan Atlantique de l’océan Pacifique. Pronounced \a.me.ʁik\. It ranks #1,219 in French word frequency. Often confused with Amériques and amnésique.

Key facts for Amérique
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmérique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\a.me.ʁik\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,219
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Amérique is 8 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.me.ʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,219 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Amérique, with forms such as "amerique", "ammérique", and "amréique". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Amériques", "amnésique", "Afrique", 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 Amérique, spelled A-M-É-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Continent séparant l’océan Atlantique de l’océan Pacifique.
  2. 2
    Chacun des deux sous-continents qui la composent. → voir la note
  3. 3
    États-Unis d’Amérique.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amerique,ammérique,amréique,améirque,amériqeu,amériqque,amériuqe,amérqiue,amérrique,aémrique,maérique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Amérique

Misspelling Variants of "Amérique"

amerique8ammérique9amréique8améirque8amériqeu8amériqque9amériuqe8amérqiue8
Misspelling Variants of "Amérique"

Frequency rank: #1,219 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Amérique"?
"Amérique" is spelled A-M-É-R-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.me.ʁik\.
What does "Amérique" mean?
As a name, "Amérique" means: Continent séparant l’océan Atlantique de l’océan Pacifique.
What words are commonly confused with "Amérique"?
"Amérique" is commonly confused with "Amériques", "amnésique", "Afrique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Amérique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Amérique" is \a.me.ʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Amérique" come from?
"Amérique" 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.