Amira
"amira" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amira” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,780) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,780
- frequency rank, English
- 35,202
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir
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 | Amira |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Amira” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Amira is neighbouring look-alikes ("ara", "AMR", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #45,780 among 35,202 “A” headwords. Gloss: "A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amira, with forms such as "aimra", "amiar", and "amirra". 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, "ara", "AMR", "Asia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”). The correct English form is Amira, spelled A-M-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Amir
Etymology
From Arabic أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra, “princess”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aimra
- amiar
- amirra
- ammira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amira - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Amira”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-M-I-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “ara” - see the side-by-side comparison. Amira vs ara
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Words at a similar English frequency
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.