Amir
\a.miʁ\
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
- Aignan
Aignan
83,461 corpus weight
- Alison
Alison
83,460 corpus weight
- Ambroise
Ambroise
83,459 corpus weight
- Amir
Amir
83,458 corpus weight
- amère
amère
83,457 corpus weight
- apparent
apparent
83,456 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.
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 | Amir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.miʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Amir »
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
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Amir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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
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).