amour-propre
\a.muʁ.pʁɔpʁ\
The verdict
“amour-propre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importance que l’être humain attache à ce qui lui est personnel, opinion trop avantageuse qu’il a de lui-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amour-propre · amour-propre · French
amour-propre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amour-propre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.muʁ.pʁɔpʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
amour-propre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.muʁ.pʁɔpʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for amour-propre in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is amour-propre, spelled A-M-O-U-R---P-R-O-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1Importance que l’être humain attache à ce qui lui est personnel, opinion trop avantageuse qu’il a de lui-même.
- 2Sentiment légitime et nécessaire qui attache chaque personne à son existence et lui fait rechercher son bien-être.
- 3Égoïsme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amour-propre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est pas seulement à chaque individu que la nature a distribué les dons heureux d’amour-propre ; chaque peuple, chaque nation, chaque ville même en a reçu une assez bonne dose.
Ce n’est qu’en 1913 — avec l’élection de M. Raymond Poincaré à l’Élysée et la désignation de M. Millerand au Ministère de la Guerre — qu’une véritable éruption d’amour-propre national, ou plutôt nationaliste, recouvre la France, plus exactement la presse française, soignée par le gouvernement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.