Amphipolis
\amˈpʰi.po.lis\
The verdict
“Amphipolis” is uncommon French (frequency #86,400 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,400
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville de Macédoine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amphipolis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \amˈpʰi.po.lis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Amphipolis” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Amphipolis is uncommon French at frequency #86,400 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \amˈpʰi.po.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Macédoine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Amphipolis, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Amphipolis, spelled A-M-P-H-I-P-O-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Ville de Macédoine.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-M-P-H-I-P-O-L-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.