amu
\ˈa.mu\
The verdict
“amu” is uncommon French (frequency #79,043 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,043
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volitif du verbe ami (transitif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-amu · amu · French
amu · rank #79,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,043
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amount
Nearest frequency peer: amount (-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 « amu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ambassadric…
ambassadrices
20,961 corpus weight
- ammon
ammon
20,960 corpus weight
- amount
amount
20,959 corpus weight
- amu
amu
20,958 corpus weight
- aménageant
aménageant
20,957 corpus weight
- américanisa…
américanisation
20,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈa.mu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amu is uncommon French at frequency #79,043 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈa.mu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Volitif du verbe ami (transitif).".
amu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 amu, spelled A-M-U.
Definition
- 1Volitif du verbe ami (transitif).
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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