amortissement
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,345
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
amortissement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Annulation de la mainmorte sur un domaine en échange d’une compensation monétaire due au seigneur. Redevance payée par les mainmortables au seigneur pour l’indemniser de la suppression des droits d... Pronounced \a.mɔʁ.tis.mɑ̃\. Often confused with avertissement and amortissements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amortissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mɔʁ.tis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #20,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amortissement is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mɔʁ.tis.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,345 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for amortissement, with forms such as "ammortissement", "amoritssement", and "amorrtissement". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "avertissement", "amortissements", "aboutissement", 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 amortissement, spelled A-M-O-R-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Annulation de la mainmorte sur un domaine en échange d’une compensation monétaire due au seigneur. Redevance payée par les mainmortables au seigneur pour l’indemniser de la suppression des droits de mutation dont ce dernier se trouverait privé à l'avenir.
- 2Conversion en une rente annuelle d’un capital.
- 3Rééchelonnement dans le temps des annuités, amoindrissement des annuités.
- 4Affaiblissement, atténuation.
- 5Charge passée dans les comptes pour compenser la dépréciation graduelle d'une immobilisation.
- 6Succession de paiement remboursant le capital d'un emprunt.
- 7Ce qui termine et surmonte le comble d’un bâtiment.
- 8Cavet renversé qui couvre les corniches des croisées et des portes extérieures, pour les garantir de la pluie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammortissement,amoritssement,amorrtissement,amortisement,amortisesment,amortisseemnt,amortissemennt,amortissementt,amortissemetn,amortissemment,amortissemnet,amortissmeent,amortsisement,amorttissement,amotrissement,amrotissement,aomrtissement,maortissement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amortissement
Misspelling Variants of "amortissement"
Frequency rank: #20,345 in French
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