amorcer
\a.mɔʁ.se\
The verdict
“amorcer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,611. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,611
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garnir d’une amorce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amorcer · amorcer · French
amorcer · rank #26,611 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,611
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alphabétisati…
Nearest frequency peer: alphabétisation (-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 « amorcer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agrumes
agrumes
73,393 corpus weight
- ajouts
ajouts
73,392 corpus weight
- alphabétisa…
alphabétisation
73,391 corpus weight
- amorcer
amorcer
73,390 corpus weight
- amortir
amortir
73,389 corpus weight
- anguille
anguille
73,388 corpus weight
What this shows « amorcer » 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 | amorcer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.mɔʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amorcer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around amorcer (IPA \a.mɔʁ.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,611 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for amorcer, with forms such as "ammorcer", "amocrer", and "amorccer". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "amore", "avorter", "amortir", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 amorcer, spelled A-M-O-R-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garnir d’une amorce.
- 2Attirer avec de l’amorce.
- 3Attirer.
- 4Mettre en route un processus, commencer quelque chose.
- 5Mettre en marche un ordinateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amorcer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amorcer un hameçon, un pistolet, un fusil, etc.
Je n’ai pas eu le temps d’amorcer.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammorcer
- amocrer
- amorccer
- amorcerr
- amorcre
- amorecr
- amorrcer
- amrocer
- aomrcer
- maorcer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amorcer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).