Amie
"amie" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amie” is an uncommon English word, ranked #50,353 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #50,353
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname transferred from the given name.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Amie” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Amie is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #50,353 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A surname transferred from the given name.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Amie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps a variant spelling of the female given name Amy. The correct English form is Amie, spelled A-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
Perhaps a variant spelling of the female given name Amy.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Amie”
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- The one correct English spelling is A-M-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.