Amir

\a.miʁ\

/\a.miʁ\/ name

The verdict

“Amir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,543) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#16,543
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amir · Amir · French

Amir · rank #16,543 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,543
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ambroise

Nearest frequency peer: Ambroise (-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 « Amir »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Amir » 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).

Amir vs Amy
50% similar
Amir vs API
25% similar
Amir vs APR
25% similar

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

Key facts for Amir
PropertyValue
HeadwordAmir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.miʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#16,543
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Amir »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Ambroise » (#16,542), « amère » (#16,544), « Alison » (#16,541). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Amir » est au #16,543. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Amir is neighbouring look-alikes ("Amy", "API", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \a.miʁ\. Frequency #16,543 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amir, with forms such as "aimr", "amirr", and "ammir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Amy", "API", "APR", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Amir, spelled A-M-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Amir El Kacem.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aimr
  • amirr
  • ammir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amir - 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.

aimr2amirr1ammir1
Edit distance from "Amir"

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 "Amir"?
"Amir" is spelled A-M-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.miʁ\.
What does "Amir" mean?
As a proper noun, "Amir" means: Prénom masculin.
What words are commonly confused with "Amir"?
"Amir" is commonly confused with "Amy", "API", "APR". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Amir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Amir" is \a.miʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Amir" come from?
"Amir" 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 "Amir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list