amie

\a.mi\

/\a.mi\/ noun

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The verdict

“amie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,762) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#1,762
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme avec qui on est lié d’amitié.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amie · amie · French

amie · rank #1,762 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,762
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alcool

Nearest frequency peer: alcool (-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 « amie »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « amie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

amie vs axe
50% similar
amie vs are
50% similar
amie vs âne
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for amie
PropertyValue
Headwordamie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.mi\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,762
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « amie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).amiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alcool » (#1,761), « agir » (#1,760), « autrement » (#1,764). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « amie » est au #1,762. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for amie is neighbouring look-alikes ("axe", "are", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.mi\. Frequency #1,762 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Femme avec qui on est lié d’amitié.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for amie, with forms such as "amei", "ammie", and "maie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "axe", "are", "âne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is amie, spelled A-M-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme avec qui on est lié d’amitié.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how amie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Thomyra est l’amie et l’amante de la belle fille qui se nomme Penthésilée, et elle craint de perdre une affection qui lui est chère, si elle devient grosse des œuvres du captif.
  2. « Il y a aussi les blessés, les violations de propriété privée, le non-respect de règles de sécurité, les animaux domestiques tués », ajoute l’association Un jour un chasseur, fondée par les amies de Morgan Keane, abattu par un chasseur en 2020.

Antonyms

ennemie

This word in other languages

friend(English)amiga(Español)Freundin(Deutsch)amiga(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amei
  • ammie
  • maie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amei2ammie1maie2
Edit distance from "amie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amie"?
"amie" is spelled A-M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.mi\.
What does "amie" mean?
As a noun, "amie" means: Femme avec qui on est lié d’amitié.
What words are commonly confused with "amie"?
"amie" is commonly confused with "axe", "are", "âne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amie" is \a.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amie" come from?
"amie" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "amie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

agir#1,760coût#1,767marc#1,777rare#1,785

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list