AmazonvsAmazonesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Amazon is a name, Amazones is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Amazon” is a name and “Amazones” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,101
“Amazon” frequency rank
#33,109
“Amazones” frequency rank
38210
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Amazon Amazones
Definition Entreprise de commerce électronique américaine basée à Seattle. Pluriel de Amazone.

Same sound, different letters: Amazon vs Amazones

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

6 ch
Amazon
8 ch
Amazones

Same sound, different spelling - Amazon / Amazones

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: Amazon and Amazones carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.ma.zon\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is aname, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “Amazon” sits inside “Amazones”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38210, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Amazon is recorded at frequency rank #5,101, classified as aname, pronounced \a.ma.zon\. Amazones is at rank #33,109, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ma.zon\.

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 38210, this pair ranks #256,886 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Amazon vs Amazones

Shared letters: amnoz. Private to "Amazon": -. Private to "Amazones": es.

"Amazon" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "Amazones" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Amazonaamzon · amaozn · amazno · amazonn · amazzon · ammazon · amzaon · maazon
  • Amazonesaamzones · amaoznes · amaznoes · amazoens · amazoness · amazonnes · amazonse · amazzones

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Amazon" and "Amazones" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Amazon" is a name and "Amazones" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Amazon" vs "Amazones" - which ranks higher?
"Amazon" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,101 in our French list, against #33,109 for "Amazones". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Amazon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Amazones" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #256,886 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Amazon" and "Amazones" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amazone vs Amazones". 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 #256,886 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