Amiel

name

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The verdict

“Amiel” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,323. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,323
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amiel · Amiel · French

Amiel · rank #48,323 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,323
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amendée

Nearest frequency peer: amendée (-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 « Amiel »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Amiel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

Amiel vs amis
40% similar
Amiel vs Asie
60% similar
Amiel vs axel
40% similar

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

Key facts for Amiel
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmiel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#48,323
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Amiel »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Amielse 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 « amendée » (#48,322), « amortisseur » (#48,325), « alizé » (#48,320). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Amiel » est au #48,323. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Amiel, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,323 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amiel, with forms such as "aimel", "ameil", and "amiell". 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, "amis", "Asie", "axel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Amiel, spelled A-M-I-E-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. « C’est un scrutin qui crée une polarisation avec des partis qui ont intérêt à ne s’adresser qu’à une partie de la ville », résume David Amiel, député Renaissance de Paris.
  2. « Ce n’est pas parce qu’on a gagné une fois qu’on ne doit plus gagner », a assuré Alexandra Redde-Amiel, la cheffe de délégation.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aimel
  • ameil
  • amiell
  • amile
  • ammiel
  • maiel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amiel - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aimel2ameil2amiell1amile2ammiel1maiel2
Edit distance from "Amiel"

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 "Amiel"?
"Amiel" is spelled A-M-I-E-L.
What does "Amiel" mean?
As a proper noun, "Amiel" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Amiel"?
"Amiel" is commonly confused with "amis", "Asie", "axel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Amiel" come from?
"Amiel" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

alizé#48,320Alina#48,319Anssi#48,333Asean#48,344

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

baissa6 variantsbegin6 variantsvaria6 variantsthug6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list