Amiens
\a.mjɛ̃\
The verdict
“Amiens” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,025
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Somme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amiens · Amiens · French
Amiens · rank #7,025 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agissant
Nearest frequency peer: agissant (-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 « Amiens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 5e
5e
92,979 corpus weight
- admet
admet
92,978 corpus weight
- agissant
agissant
92,977 corpus weight
- Amiens
Amiens
92,976 corpus weight
- annulation
annulation
92,975 corpus weight
- Antonio
Antonio
92,974 corpus weight
What this shows « Amiens » 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 | Amiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.mjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Amiens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Amiens (IPA \a.mjɛ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,025 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Somme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amiens, with forms such as "aimens", "ameins", and "amienns". 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", "amin", "amies", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Amiens, spelled A-M-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Somme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Amiens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant la paix d’Amiens, cet Anglais avait résolu le problème de couvrir le buste sans assommer le corps de cet affreux carrick qui finit aujourd’hui sur le dos des vieux cochers de fiacre ; mais comme les fines tailles sont en minorité, la mode du spencer pour homme n’eut en France qu’un succès passager, quoique ce fût une invention anglaise.
Parmi les manques, celui des accompagnants d’élève en situation de handicap (AESH) pèse lourd. « Dans l’académie d’Amiens (dans la Somme), il manque 17 AESH à cette rentrée », rapporte Alexis Trochet, secrétaire général du Sgen-CFDT.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aimens
- ameins
- amienns
- amienss
- amiesn
- amines
- ammiens
- maiens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amiens - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).