amiga
"amiga" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amiga” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,113
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female friend.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amiga · amiga · English
amiga · rank #40,113 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,113
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alva
Nearest frequency peer: Alva (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “amiga”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ahoy
ahoy
59,894 corpus weight
- allo
allo
59,891 corpus weight
- Alston
Alston
59,890 corpus weight
- Alva
Alva
59,889 corpus weight
- amiga
amiga
59,888 corpus weight
- anorexic
anorexic
59,883 corpus weight
What this shows “amiga” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amiga |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “amiga”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around amiga, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,113 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female friend.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for amiga, with forms such as "aimga", "amgia", and "amiag". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Asia", "amir", "aria", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish amiga (“female friend”). The correct English form is amiga, spelled A-M-I-G-A.
Definition
- 1A female friend.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish amiga (“female friend”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aimga
- amgia
- amiag
- amigga
- ammiga
- maiga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amiga - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amiga", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).