amibe
\a.mib\
The verdict
“amibe” is uncommon French (frequency #80,854 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,854
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protozoaire de forme changeante, infusoire microscopique des eaux douces et salées, se mouvant à l'aide de pseudopodes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amibe · amibe · French
amibe · rank #80,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,854
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambiantes
Nearest frequency peer: ambiantes (-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 « amibe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amassée
amassée
19,149 corpus weight
- ambiantes
ambiantes
19,148 corpus weight
- amibe
amibe
19,147 corpus weight
- amputées
amputées
19,146 corpus weight
- amyotrophiq…
amyotrophique
19,145 corpus weight
- aménageurs
aménageurs
19,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amibe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amibe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mib\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amibe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amibe is uncommon French at frequency #80,854 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.mib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for amibe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is amibe, spelled A-M-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1Protozoaire de forme changeante, infusoire microscopique des eaux douces et salées, se mouvant à l'aide de pseudopodes.
- 2Espèce de la famille des amébidés (Amoebidae) ou des entamébidés (Entamoebidae).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amibe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-on détruire les bactéries pathogènes des eaux industrielles autrement que par voie chimique et de façon rentable? Oui, et en voici la preuve. Dans les années 1980, des biologistes de l’Université de Lyon découvrent, dans une source thermale d’Aix-les-Bains, une amibe, minuscule être à une cellule, au doux nom de Willaertia magna, qui dévore naturelle…
En effet, un cristal de sulfate de cuivre placé dans une solution mère s’accroît, il est vrai, mais par juxtaposition, tandis que le plus infime des êtres, la monère, lʼamibe, lʼinfusoire, sʼaccroît par intussusception.
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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