amount
The verdict
“amount” is uncommon French (frequency #79,042 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,042
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amount · amount · French
amount · rank #79,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ammon
Nearest frequency peer: ammon (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « amount »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alvar
Alvar
20,962 corpus weight
- ambassadric…
ambassadrices
20,961 corpus weight
- ammon
ammon
20,960 corpus weight
- amount
amount
20,959 corpus weight
- amu
amu
20,958 corpus weight
- aménageant
aménageant
20,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amount » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amount |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amount » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amount is uncommon French at frequency #79,042 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
amount has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is amount, spelled A-M-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1Quantité.
- 2Nombre.
- 3Montant, somme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amount appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The amount of an analyte captured by the HRP is made quantitative by measuring the color formation on the addition of a chromogenic HRP substrate.
Repeating the amount in two different forms makes it much more difficult for an unscrupulous employee or vendor to modify the amount on the cheque before depositing it.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).