amoral
\a.mɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“amoral” is uncommon French (frequency #74,545 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,545
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est étranger à la morale, qui ne l’attaque ni ne la défend, qui se place en dehors d’elle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amoral · amoral · French
amoral · rank #74,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,545
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Amiot
Nearest frequency peer: Amiot (-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 « amoral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Altkirch
Altkirch
25,459 corpus weight
- Amiot
Amiot
25,457 corpus weight
- amoral
amoral
25,456 corpus weight
- amphitryon
amphitryon
25,455 corpus weight
- améliora
améliora
25,454 corpus weight
- américanisme
américanisme
25,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amoral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amoral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.mɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amoral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amoral is uncommon French at frequency #74,545 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.mɔ.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amoral, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 amoral, spelled A-M-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est étranger à la morale, qui ne l’attaque ni ne la défend, qui se place en dehors d’elle.
- 2Qui est neutre par son refus de porter un jugement sur la nature morale ou immorale d’un fait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amoral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce roman est amoral plutôt qu’immoral.
L’alcoolique est toujours immoral ou amoral ; mais, en dehors des alcooliques, il y a beaucoup d’amoraux, beaucoup d’êtres qui naissent amputés du sens moral.
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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