amoureux
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,022
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
amoureux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui aime d’amour. Pronounced \a.mu.ʁø\. It ranks #2,022 in French word frequency. Often confused with amoureuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amoureux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.mu.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amoureux is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mu.ʁø\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,022 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for amoureux, with forms such as "ammoureux", "amorueux", and "amouerux". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "amoureuse", 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 amoureux, spelled A-M-O-U-R-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui aime d’amour.
- 2Qui est enclin à l’amour.
- 3Qui exprime, qui marque de l’amour, qui est plein de sentiments d’amour, ou qui tend, qui est propre à inspirer de l’amour.
- 4Qui a une grande passion pour quelque chose.
- 5Qui est relatif à l’amour.
- 6Qui prend, retient bien l’encre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammoureux,amorueux,amouerux,amoureuxx,amourexu,amourreux,amouruex,amuoreux,aomureux,maoureux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amoureux
Misspelling Variants of "amoureux"
Frequency rank: #2,022 in French
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