amou

noun

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The verdict

“amou” is uncommon French (frequency #62,037 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,037
frequency rank, French
424,905
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Amour.

Key facts for amou
PropertyValue
Headwordamou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#62,037
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “amou” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). amou lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

amou is uncommon French at frequency #62,037 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Amour.".

No misspelling variants are generated for amou in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is amou, spelled A-M-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Amour.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amou"?
"amou" is spelled A-M-O-U.
What does "amou" mean?
As a noun, "amou" means: Amour.
What language does "amou" come from?
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Using “amou”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-M-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list