amibes
\a.mib\
The verdict
“amibes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,397 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,397
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de amibe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amibes · amibes · French
amibes · rank #75,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,397
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amassent
Nearest frequency peer: amassent (-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 « amibes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alarmés
alarmés
24,607 corpus weight
- Amada
Amada
24,606 corpus weight
- amassent
amassent
24,605 corpus weight
- amibes
amibes
24,604 corpus weight
- amortit
amortit
24,603 corpus weight
- amélioreront
amélioreront
24,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amibes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amibes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.mib\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amibes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amibes is uncommon French at frequency #75,397 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.mib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de amibe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for amibes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is amibes, spelled A-M-I-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de amibe.
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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