amorce
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,800
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
amorce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appât fixé à l'hameçon d'une ligne de pêcheur, destiné à faire mordre le poisson. Pronounced \a.mɔʁs\. Often confused with aorte and amore.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amorce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amorce is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɔʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,800 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for amorce, with forms such as "ammorce", "amocre", and "amorcce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "aorte", "amore", "avorté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is amorce, spelled A-M-O-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appât fixé à l'hameçon d'une ligne de pêcheur, destiné à faire mordre le poisson.
- 2Matière explosive qui sert à enflammer la charge d’un canon, d’un fusil, d’une mine, etc.
- 3Appât, ce qui attire vers quelque chose.
- 4Oligonucléotide qui, hybridé avec une matrice d'acide nucléique, permet à une polymérase de déclencher la synthèse du brin complémentaire.
- 5Partie de muraille non achevée et qui doit être continuée plus tard.
- 6Partie d’une route, d’une rue commencée à l’une de ses extrémités.
- 7Début d'un espace géographique.
- 8Début d'une action.
- 9Programme nécessaire à la mise en marche d'un ordinateur, et exécuté à chaque mise sous tension ou réinitialisation.
- 10Marque faite avec un poinçon ou un amorçoir sur du bois, du métal, de la pierre, etc. pour repérer l'emplacement où doit se faire un perçage.
- 11Bout de pellicule attaché au début ou à la fin d'une pellicule.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammorce,amocre,amorcce,amorec,amorrce,amroce,aomrce,maorce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "amorce"
Frequency rank: #15,800 in French
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