amarvsaraWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: amar is a verb, ara is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“amar” is a verb and “ara” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,048
“amar” frequency rank
#29,225
“ara” frequency rank
57273
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amar ara
Definition Aimer. Nom normalisé donné à six genres de grands oiseaux de la famille des psittacidés (e.g. "vrais" perroquets, amazones, etc.), à longue queue, au plumage très coloré et aux patrons complexes, dont l’intelligence et les aptitudes vocales sont supérieures à celles de la plupart des autres membres de l’ordre des psittaciformes, et qui fréquentent les forêts humides de l'écozone néotropicale, et dont plusieurs espèces sont présentement menacées de disparition (genres principaux: Ara, Anodorhynchus, Propyrrhura, etc.).

Letter map: amar vs ara

Shared letters muted; letters that set amar and ara apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
amar
3 ch
ara

Role in the sentence - amar and ara

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: amar is averb and araanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57273, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amar is recorded at frequency rank #28,048, classified as averb. ara is at rank #29,225, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ʁa\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 57273, this pair ranks #116,045 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amar vs ara

Shared letters: ar. Private to "amar": m. Private to "ara": -.

"amar" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "ara" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amaraamr · amarr · ammar

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "amar" and "ara" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amar" is a verb and "ara" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "amar" or "ara"?
"amar" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,048 in our French list, against #29,225 for "ara". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "amar" and "ara". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ara" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #116,045 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amar" and "ara" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ara vs avéra". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #116,045 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list