Amérique
\a.me.ʁik\
The verdict
“Amérique” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,219 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #1,219
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Continent séparant l’océan Atlantique de l’océan Pacifique.
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 | Amérique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.me.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Amérique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Amérique is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amérique, with forms such as "amerique", "ammérique", and "amréique". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Amériques", "amnésique", "Afrique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Amérique, spelled A-M-É-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Continent séparant l’océan Atlantique de l’océan Pacifique.
- 2Chacun des deux sous-continents qui la composent. → voir la note
- 3États-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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amérique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Amérique”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-M-É-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.me.ʁik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Amériques” - see the side-by-side comparison. Amérique vs Amériques
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.