amount

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amount » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for amount
PropertyValue
Headwordamount
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#79,042
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « amount » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.amounttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « ammon » (#79,041), « amu » (#79,043), « ambassadrices » (#79,040). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « amount » est au #79,042. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Quantité.
  2. 2
    Nombre.
  3. 3
    Montant, somme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how amount appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amount"?
"amount" is spelled A-M-O-U-N-T.
What does "amount" mean?
As a noun, "amount" means: Quantité.
What language does "amount" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amount", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list