amor

//ɐ.ˈmoɾ// noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#274

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

amor is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sentimento de gostar muito de outra pessoa ou coisa, de forma a querer e fazer o bem para essa pessoa, ser vivente ou mesmo coisa Pronounced /ɐ.ˈmoɾ/. It ranks #274 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ao and ar.

Key facts for amor
PropertyValue
Headwordamor
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ɐ.ˈmoɾ/
Letters4
Frequency rank#274
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of amor in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for amor is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ˈmoɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #274 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sentimento de gostar muito de outra pessoa ou coisa, de forma a querer e fazer o bem para essa pessoa, ser vivente ou mesmo coisa".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for amor, with forms such as "ammor", "amorr", and "amro". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ao", "ar", "ano", and more, 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 Portuguese form is amor, spelled A-M-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sentimento de gostar muito de outra pessoa ou coisa, de forma a querer e fazer o bem para essa pessoa, ser vivente ou mesmo coisa

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ammor,amorr,amro,aomr,maor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amor

Misspelling Variants of "amor"

ammor5amorr5amro4aomr4maor4
Misspelling Variants of "amor"

Frequency rank: #274 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amor"?
"amor" is spelled A-M-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is /ɐ.ˈmoɾ/.
What does "amor" mean?
As a noun, "amor" means: sentimento de gostar muito de outra pessoa ou coisa, de forma a querer e fazer o bem para essa pessoa, ser vivente ou mesmo coisa
What words are commonly confused with "amor"?
"amor" is commonly confused with "ao", "ar", "ano". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amor" is /ɐ.ˈmoɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amor" come from?
"amor" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.