Amérique
\a.me.ʁik\
The verdict
“Amérique” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,219
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Continent séparant l’océan Atlantique de l’océan Pacifique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amerique · Amérique · French
Amérique · rank #1,219 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,219
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH absence
Nearest frequency peer: absence (-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 « Amérique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voulais
voulais
98,785 corpus weight
- étudiants
étudiants
98,784 corpus weight
- absence
absence
98,783 corpus weight
- Amérique
Amérique
98,782 corpus weight
- Angleterre
Angleterre
98,781 corpus weight
- blanche
blanche
98,780 corpus weight
What this shows « Amérique » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Amérique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Amérique (IPA \a.me.ʁik\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,219 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Amérique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant longtemps le sucre ordinaire a été extrait exclusivement de la canne à sucre ; cette opération se pratique encore, surtout dans les Indes et en Amérique.
[…] ; enfin Thorwaldsen comptait parmi ses ancêtres un certain Snorre Thorfinnson, qui naquit en Amérique en 1008 , plusieurs siècles avant que Christophe Colomb eût retrouvé ce continent, depuis longtemps connu des Islandais.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Amérique", 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).