Amphipolis
\amˈpʰi.po.lis\
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
- Allauch
Allauch
13,604 corpus weight
- almond
almond
13,602 corpus weight
- Amphipolis
Amphipolis
13,601 corpus weight
- amuseur
amuseur
13,600 corpus weight
- amyloïde
amyloïde
13,599 corpus weight
- anamnèse
anamnèse
13,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Amphipolis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Amphipolis » en français
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
- 1Ville de Macédoine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Amphipolis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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