amish
\a.miʃ\
The verdict
“amish” is uncommon French (frequency #55,045 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,045
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la secte anabaptiste américaine des Amishes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-amish · amish · French
amish · rank #55,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,045
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambiguës
Nearest frequency peer: ambiguës (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « amish »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- altruistes
altruistes
44,959 corpus weight
- amassés
amassés
44,958 corpus weight
- ambiguës
ambiguës
44,957 corpus weight
- amish
amish
44,956 corpus weight
- améliorerait
améliorerait
44,955 corpus weight
- Andrey
Andrey
44,954 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « amish » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.miʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « amish » en français
Rare enough to double-check
amish is uncommon French at frequency #55,045 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.miʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la secte anabaptiste américaine des Amishes.".
amish doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is amish, spelled A-M-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la secte anabaptiste américaine des Amishes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait tout de suite craqué pour son visage tout en douceur, son look d'institutrice amish, sans réaliser qu'il se trouvait devant l'incarnation de son fantasme, l'ange violenté.
Aujourd'hui, la moitié des communautés amish de Pennsylvanie ne pratiquent plus la culture du tabac pour des raisons morales : est-il concevable de cultiver une plante dangereuse pour la santé de l'homme ?
This word in other languages
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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