ami
noun
ami is spelled A-M-I: 3 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ami means “Clipping of amigurumi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ami is amis.
How many letters and syllables are in ami?
| Letters | 3: A-M-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ami?
Ami appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce ami?
Ami has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with ami?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ami.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: aim, mia, mai.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of ami
- amis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ami mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalClipping of amigurumi.
noun
- 1
Initialism of acute myocardial infarction.
- 2
Initialism of agonist-antagonist myoneural interface.
- 3
Ellipsis of AMI amputation.
- 4
USInitialism of area median income.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ami come from?
From a clipping of amigurumi, itself from Japanese 編み包み (amigurumi).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).