About The Word “Amateur”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “amateur”, including spelling, parts of speech, “amateur” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “amateur”

Amateur is spelled a-m-a-t-e-u-r and has 7 letters.


How to pronounce “amateur”

IPA pronunciation: /ˈamətər/

Phonetic pronunciation: "am-uh-tur"


How many vowels and consonants in “amateur”

The word “amateur” has 3 consonants and 4 vowels.


How many syllables in “amateur”?

There are 3 syllables in the word “amateur”.


What type of word is “amateur”?

The word "amateur" can be a noun and adjective.

Meaning of the word “amateur”

An amateur refers to a person who engages in a particular activity, such as a sport or hobby, for the love and passion of it rather than for financial gain or professional reasons. It can also imply a lack of skill or expertise in comparison to a professional in the same field.

Origin of the word “amateur”

The word 'amateur' has its origins in the Latin word 'amator,' meaning 'lover,' and is derived from 'amare,' which means 'to love.' It was later adopted into French as 'amateur' before entering the English language in the late 18th century.
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Synonyms for “amateur”

Other words for “amateur” include novice, beginner, learner, neophyte, newcomer, dilettante, nonprofessional, hobbyist, dabbler.

Word families for “amateur”

Amateurish, amateurism, amateurs

Common misspellings of “amateur”

Ahmateur

Similar words to “amateur”

Amateurish, amateurs, armature, mater, amaister, animater, amate

Scrambled words derived from “amateur”

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Crossword clues for “amateur”

Inexperienced lover embraces a strange aura (7).

Fun facts about the word “amateur”

The word “amateur” has a Scrabble score of 9 and reads ruetama in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “amateur”

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“amateur” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “amateur”

Lowercase word: 97 109 97 116 101 117 114

Uppercase word: 65 77 65 84 69 85 82

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “amateur”

Lowercase word: 1100001 1101101 1100001 1110100 1100101 1110101 1110010

Uppercase word: 1000001 1001101 1000001 1010100 1000101 1010101 1010010

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “amateur”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x61 0x6D 0x61 0x74 0x65 0x75 0x72

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x41 0x4D 0x41 0x54 0x45 0x55 0x52

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “amateur”

Lowercase: 97 109 97 116 101 117 114

Upprcase: 65 77 65 84 69 85 82

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “amateur”

Lowercase: 141 155 141 164 145 165 162

Upprcase: 101 115 101 124 105 125 122

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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