amerrissage

\a.mɛ.ʁi.saʒ\

/\a.mɛ.ʁi.saʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“amerrissage” is uncommon French (frequency #81,755 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,755
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’amerrir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amerrissage · amerrissage · French

amerrissage · rank #81,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,755
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Aliocha

Nearest frequency peer: Aliocha (-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 « amerrissage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amerrissage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for amerrissage
PropertyValue
Headwordamerrissage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.mɛ.ʁi.saʒ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#81,755
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « amerrissage » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).amerrissagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Aliocha » (#81,754), « amnesia » (#81,756), « Aleksander » (#81,753). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « amerrissage » est au #81,755. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

amerrissage is uncommon French at frequency #81,755 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.mɛ.ʁi.saʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’amerrir.".

amerrissage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is amerrissage, spelled A-M-E-R-R-I-S-S-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’amerrir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how amerrissage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comment allait se passer notre amerrissage sur une mer aussi démontée ?

This word in other languages

splashdown(English)amarizaje(Español)Wasserung(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amerrissage"?
"amerrissage" is spelled A-M-E-R-R-I-S-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.mɛ.ʁi.saʒ\.
What does "amerrissage" mean?
As a noun, "amerrissage" means: Action d’amerrir.
How do you pronounce "amerrissage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amerrissage" is \a.mɛ.ʁi.saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amerrissage" come from?
"amerrissage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amerrissage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

argumentent#81,765affairistes#81,744automoteurs#81,784équilatéral#81,722

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list