almamy
\al.ma.mi\
The verdict
“almamy” is uncommon French (frequency #87,311 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,311
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que portent plusieurs souverains d'Afrique ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-almamy · almamy · French
almamy · rank #87,311 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,311
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allergologue
Nearest frequency peer: allergologue (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « almamy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alin
alin
12,692 corpus weight
- allergologue
allergologue
12,691 corpus weight
- almamy
almamy
12,690 corpus weight
- Alphée
Alphée
12,689 corpus weight
- although
although
12,688 corpus weight
- ambitionnent
ambitionnent
12,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « almamy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | almamy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ma.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « almamy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
almamy is uncommon French at frequency #87,311 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ma.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom que portent plusieurs souverains d'Afrique ^([1]).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for almamy, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is almamy, spelled A-L-M-A-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom que portent plusieurs souverains d'Afrique ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how almamy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"<...> mais à peine était-il arrivé sur les terres de l'almamy du Fouta-Diallon, que l'expédition fut retenue par l'ordre de ce souverain."
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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