amphitryon
\ɑ̃.fi.tʁi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“amphitryon” is uncommon French (frequency #74,546 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,546
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hôte chez qui l’on est invité à manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amphitryon · amphitryon · French
amphitryon · rank #74,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,546
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amoral
Nearest frequency peer: amoral (-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 « amphitryon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Amiot
Amiot
25,457 corpus weight
- amoral
amoral
25,456 corpus weight
- amphitryon
amphitryon
25,455 corpus weight
- améliora
améliora
25,454 corpus weight
- américanisme
américanisme
25,453 corpus weight
- anat
anat
25,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amphitryon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amphitryon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fi.tʁi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amphitryon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amphitryon is uncommon French at frequency #74,546 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fi.tʁi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hôte chez qui l’on est invité à manger.".
amphitryon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is amphitryon, spelled A-M-P-H-I-T-R-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Hôte chez qui l’on est invité à manger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amphitryon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] après qu’il eut avec grand-peine accompli la mastication d’une bouchée de pois secs, il lui fallut absolument supplier son pieux amphitryon de lui fournir un breuvage quelconque […]
Holà ! Une bouteille, Iakov, apporte une bouteille ! Cria du milieu de la bande l’amphitryon en personne…
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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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