ampoule
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,902
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
ampoule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récipient en verre, sorte de fiole, à col effilé. Pronounced \ɑ̃.pul\. Often confused with ample.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ampoule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pul\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ampoule is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.pul\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,902 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ampoule, with forms such as "ammpoule", "amopule", and "ampolue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ample", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ampoule, spelled A-M-P-O-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récipient en verre, sorte de fiole, à col effilé.
- 2Très petit récipient en verre en forme de tube fermé, dont une ou deux extrémités sont effilées et limées afin d’être cassées par simple pression.
- 3Boule de verre, contenant un gaz et traversé par un filament métallique, servant à l’éclairage électrique ; ampoule électrique.
- 4Globe (ou autre forme) de verre ou de plastique contenant quelque chose qui émet de la lumière grâce à l'électricité et que l'on peut introduire dans une douille spéciale.
- 5Vésicule remplie de liquide qui se forme sous la peau, et causée par des frottements répétés ou une brûlure.
- 6Emphase, enflure en parlant d’un style.
- 7Renflements qu’on observe sur la tige des plantes aquatiques.
- 8Monticule de dimensions variables.
- 9Vase d’étain ou d’argent destiné à contenir les saintes huiles au sein de l’Église catholique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammpoule,amopule,ampolue,ampouel,ampoulle,amppoule,ampuole,apmoule,mapoule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ampoule
Misspelling Variants of "ampoule"
Frequency rank: #12,902 in French
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