amours
\a.muʁ\
The verdict
“amours” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel d’amour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amours · amours · French
amours · rank #7,271 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambitieux
Nearest frequency peer: ambitieux (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « amours »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adolescence
adolescence
92,733 corpus weight
- alternatives
alternatives
92,732 corpus weight
- ambitieux
ambitieux
92,731 corpus weight
- amours
amours
92,730 corpus weight
- Annie
Annie
92,729 corpus weight
- approvision…
approvisionnement
92,728 corpus weight
What this shows « amours » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amours »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around amours (IPA \a.muʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,271 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for amours, with forms such as "ammours", "amorus", and "amourrs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "atouts", "avoirs", "atours", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is amours, spelled A-M-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel d’amour.
- 2Les dernières gouttes dans une bouteille de vin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’a jamais raconté, à son propos, les fortunes disparues, les captivités de la prison pour dettes, et les trahisons qui sont l’accompagnement ordinaire des ténébreuses amours.
J'imagine que, tout au long de leurs amours intermittentes, toujours traversées et toujours renaissantes, Romain et Meg, puis Romain et Margault avaient eu, l'un et l'autre, chacun de son côté, beaucoup à se pardonner et à se faire pardonner.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammours
- amorus
- amourrs
- amourss
- amousr
- amuors
- aomurs
- maours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amours - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).