amiante
\a.mjɑ̃t\
The verdict
“amiante” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,057
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme générique désignant des silicates filamenteux dont une serpentine et cinq amphiboles dont on faisait de la toile et des mèches incombustibles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amiante · amiante · French
amiante · rank #16,057 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,057
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambiante
Nearest frequency peer: ambiante (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « amiante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alliage
alliage
83,946 corpus weight
- ambiante
ambiante
83,945 corpus weight
- amiante
amiante
83,944 corpus weight
- amusent
amusent
83,943 corpus weight
- anse
anse
83,942 corpus weight
- Antoinette
Antoinette
83,941 corpus weight
What this shows « amiante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | amiante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mjɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amiante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around amiante (IPA \a.mjɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,057 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Terme générique désignant des silicates filamenteux dont une serpentine et cinq amphiboles dont on faisait de la toile et des mèches incombustibles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for amiante, with forms such as "aimante", "amainte", and "amianet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "amine", "Ariane", "amusante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is amiante, spelled A-M-I-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Terme générique désignant des silicates filamenteux dont une serpentine et cinq amphiboles dont on faisait de la toile et des mèches incombustibles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amiante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’amiante est incombustible et infusible ; ce qui fait qu’on en fait des étoffes permettant d’être utilisées contre le feu, […].
Ce fourneau tenait le centre d’une seconde pièce, d’une grandeur double de la première, et que le prince n’avait pas aperçue, masquée qu’elle était par le rideau d’amiante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aimante
- amainte
- amianet
- amiannte
- amiantte
- amiatne
- aminate
- ammiante
- maiante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amiante - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).