amparo
\amˈpa.ɾo\
The verdict
“amparo” is uncommon French (frequency #68,797 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,797
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Refuge, protection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amparo · amparo · French
amparo · rank #68,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,797
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amygdale
Nearest frequency peer: amygdale (+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 « amparo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alva
alva
31,209 corpus weight
- amandier
amandier
31,208 corpus weight
- amarre
amarre
31,207 corpus weight
- amparo
amparo
31,204 corpus weight
- amygdale
amygdale
31,203 corpus weight
- anaphore
anaphore
31,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amparo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amparo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \amˈpa.ɾo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amparo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amparo is uncommon French at frequency #68,797 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \amˈpa.ɾo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Refuge, protection.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for amparo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is amparo, spelled A-M-P-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Refuge, protection.
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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