amis
/ˈa.mis/
The verdict
“amis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,733) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,733
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasado de ami.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amis · amis · Spanish
amis · rank #41,733 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,733
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH americanista
Nearest frequency peer: americanista (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “amis”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- alquimista
alquimista
58,272 corpus weight
- amenazador
amenazador
58,270 corpus weight
- americanista
americanista
58,269 corpus weight
- amis
amis
58,268 corpus weight
- Andújar
Andújar
58,267 corpus weight
- ansiado
ansiado
58,265 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “amis” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | amis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈa.mis/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “amis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for amis is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "así", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈa.mis/. Frequency #41,733 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Pasado de ami.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for amis, with forms such as "aims", "amiss", and "ammis". 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, "as", "así", "amo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is amis, spelled A-M-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pasado de ami.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aims
- amiss
- ammis
- amsi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amis - 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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).