ami
\a.mi\
The verdict
“ami” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #665) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #665
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est bienveillant, obligeant, amical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ami · ami · French
ami · rank #665 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #665
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aider
Nearest frequency peer: aider (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ami »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- source
source
99,339 corpus weight
- troisième
troisième
99,338 corpus weight
- aider
aider
99,337 corpus weight
- ami
ami
99,336 corpus weight
- B
B
99,335 corpus weight
- campagne
campagne
99,334 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ami » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | ami |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.mi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ami »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ami is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \a.mi\. Frequency #665 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ami in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ami, spelled A-M-I.
Definition
- 1Qui est bienveillant, obligeant, amical.
- 2Propice, favorable.
- 3Qualifie des couleurs qui vont bien ensemble et dont l’union produit un effet agréable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ami appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’a montré un visage ami.
Parler un langage ami.
This word in other languages
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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