amputés
\ɑ̃.py.te\
The verdict
“amputés” is uncommon French (frequency #51,872 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,872
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de amputé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amputes · amputés · French
amputés · rank #51,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,872
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amoindri
Nearest frequency peer: amoindri (-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 « amputés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aloe
aloe
48,133 corpus weight
- alor
alor
48,132 corpus weight
- alumine
alumine
48,131 corpus weight
- amoindri
amoindri
48,130 corpus weight
- amputés
amputés
48,129 corpus weight
- amygdales
amygdales
48,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amputés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amputés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.py.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amputés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amputés is uncommon French at frequency #51,872 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.py.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de amputé.".
amputés has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is amputés, spelled A-M-P-U-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de amputé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how amputés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des cadavres jonchaient le sol en bas des remparts - il y en avait partout, sur les éboulis, dans les fossés troués de cratères -, certains encore entiers, d'autres démembrés, amputés.
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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