améthyste
\a.me.tist\
The verdict
“améthyste” is uncommon French (frequency #56,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,406
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de quartz de couleur violette utilisée en joaillerie et classée comme pierre fine. Sa formule chimique est SiO₂
Corpus desk
Index FR-amethyste · améthyste · French
améthyste · rank #56,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,406
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amplifient
Nearest frequency peer: amplifient (-2 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 « améthyste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Allee
Allee
43,599 corpus weight
- ambroisie
ambroisie
43,598 corpus weight
- amplifient
amplifient
43,597 corpus weight
- améthyste
améthyste
43,595 corpus weight
- annotée
annotée
43,593 corpus weight
- anodines
anodines
43,592 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « améthyste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | améthyste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.me.tist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « améthyste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
améthyste is uncommon French at frequency #56,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.me.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de quartz de couleur violette utilisée en joaillerie et classée comme pierre fine. Sa formule chimique est SiO₂".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for améthyste, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is améthyste, spelled A-M-É-T-H-Y-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de quartz de couleur violette utilisée en joaillerie et classée comme pierre fine. Sa formule chimique est SiO₂
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how améthyste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Henriquez coula à son doigt la topaze ensanglantée, et pendit à ses oreilles les améthystes taillées en forme de gouttes de sang.
Ainsi l’améthyste, miroir de l’humilité, de la simplesse presque enfantine, s’adapte dans la Bible à Zabulon qui était un être docile et sans orgueil
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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