Amiens

\a.mjɛ̃\

/\a.mjɛ̃\/ name

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Amiens » 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).

Amiens vs amis
50% similar
Amiens vs amin
50% similar
Amiens vs amies
67% similar

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

Key facts for Amiens
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmiens
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.mjɛ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,025
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Amiens »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Amiensse 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 « agissant » (#7,024), « annulation » (#7,026), « admet » (#7,023). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Amiens » est au #7,025. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Somme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

aimens2ameins2amienns1amienss1amiesn2amines2ammiens1maiens2
Edit distance from "Amiens"

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 "Amiens"?
"Amiens" is spelled A-M-I-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.mjɛ̃\.
What does "Amiens" mean?
As a proper noun, "Amiens" means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Somme.
What words are commonly confused with "Amiens"?
"Amiens" is commonly confused with "amis", "amin", "amies". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Amiens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Amiens" is \a.mjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Amiens" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list