Amphipolis

\amˈpʰi.po.lis\

/\amˈpʰi.po.lis\/ name

The verdict

“Amphipolis” is uncommon French (frequency #86,400 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,400
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Macédoine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amphipolis · Amphipolis · French

Amphipolis · rank #86,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,400
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH almond

Nearest frequency peer: almond (-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 « Amphipolis »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Amphipolis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Amphipolis
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmphipolis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\amˈpʰi.po.lis\
Letters10
Frequency rank#86,400
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Amphipolis » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Amphipolistombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « almond » (#86,399), « amuseur » (#86,401), « amyloïde » (#86,402). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Amphipolis » est au #86,400. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Amphipolis is uncommon French at frequency #86,400 among 6,727 “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

  1. 1
    Ville de Macédoine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Amphipolis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. oppidum Cassera faucesque alterae Isthmi, Acanthus, Stagira, Sithone, Heraclea et regio Mygdoniae subiacens, in qua recedentes a mari Apollonia, Arethusa. in ora rursus Posidium et sinus cum oppido Cermoro, Amphipolis liberum, gens Bisaltae. dein Macedoniae terminus amnis Strymon, ortus in Haemo. memorandum in septem lacus eum fundi, priusquam derigat cur…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Amphipolis"?
"Amphipolis" is spelled A-M-P-H-I-P-O-L-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \amˈpʰi.po.lis\.
What does "Amphipolis" mean?
As a proper noun, "Amphipolis" means: Ville de Macédoine.
How do you pronounce "Amphipolis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Amphipolis" is \amˈpʰi.po.lis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Amphipolis", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list