amortir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,612
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
amortir is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre moins ardent. Pronounced \a.mɔʁ.tiʁ\. Often confused with avertir and avorter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amortir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.mɔʁ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amortir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɔʁ.tiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,612 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for amortir, with forms such as "ammortir", "amoritr", and "amorrtir". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "avertir", "avorter", "amorti", 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 amortir, spelled A-M-O-R-T-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre moins ardent.
- 2Rendre un coup moins fort en affaiblissant son effet.
- 3Soumettre à une macération.
- 4Rendre moins vifs, moins éclatants, des couleurs, des sons, …
- 5Couronner un élément architectural par un motif, une statue, un fleuron, que l'on nomme alors amortissement.
- 6Constater dans les comptes la dégradation dans le temps, de la valeur d'une immobilisation.
- 7Éteindre en remboursant le capital, en désintéressant le créancier.
- 8Atténuer les effets de la chute ou de la vibration d'un corps.
- 9Être atténué dans sa vigueur.
- 10Devenir moins vif, moins éclatant.
- 11Être atténué par la rencontre d'une surface molle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammortir,amoritr,amorrtir,amortirr,amortri,amorttir,amotrir,amrotir,aomrtir,maortir
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amortir
Misspelling Variants of "amortir"
Frequency rank: #26,612 in French
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