Amish

/ˈɑː.mɪʃ/noun, adjective

Amish is spelled A-M-I-S-H: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Amish means “A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Amish?

Letters	5: A-M-I-S-H
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is Amish?

Amish appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Amish?

/ˈɑː.mɪʃ/
/ˈæ.mɪʃ/
/ˈeɪ.mɪʃ/

Amish 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Amish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does Amish mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.

adjective

1
Relating to this sect.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Amish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	Amish (a strict Anabaptist sect)
German	Amische (a strict Anabaptist sect), amisch (relating to the Amish sect)
Portuguese	amish (a strict Anabaptist sect)
Spanish	amish (ámish) (a strict Anabaptist sect)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Amish come from?

From Pennsylvania German Amisch or German Amische, after the name of the Swiss preacher Jakob Amman (1645-1730). The surname is a contraction of Old High German ambahtman.