amnésie

\am.ne.zi\

/\am.ne.zi\/ noun

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The verdict

“amnésie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,255
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affaiblissement ou perte de la mémoire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-amnesie · amnésie · French

amnésie · rank #26,255 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,255
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amidon

Nearest frequency peer: amidon (-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 « amnésie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « amnésie » 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).

amnésie vs amnesty
57% similar
amnésie vs amnistie
75% similar
amnésie vs amnésique
78% similar

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

Key facts for amnésie
PropertyValue
Headwordamnésie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\am.ne.zi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#26,255
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amnésie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).amnésiese 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 « amidon » (#26,254), « amusée » (#26,256), « Amaury » (#26,253). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « amnésie » est au #26,255. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around amnésie (IPA \am.ne.zi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,255 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Affaiblissement ou perte de la mémoire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for amnésie, with forms such as "ammnésie", "amnesie", and "amnnésie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "amnesty", "amnistie", "amnésique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is amnésie, spelled A-M-N-É-S-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Affaiblissement ou perte de la mémoire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. – Ah ! que j’ai de belles… Ah ! que j’ai de belles… répète Mᵐᵉ S., qui ne peut pas trouver ce qu’elle veut nommer. – Ah ! que tu as de belles… Ah ! que tu as de belles « ce que tu ne dis pas », ma chère Alice, reprend Mᵐᵉ D., sans sourire. Et l’effet d’une amnésie constatée si froidement est sinistre. Mᵐᵉ S. hésite à ne pas devenir folle et tout d’un coup…
  2. Lʼamnésie fonctionnelle est souvent décrite comme perte de lʼidentité personnelle.

Synonyms

oublitrou de mémoire

Antonyms

hypermnésie

This word in other languages

amnesia(English)amnesia(Español)Amnesie(Deutsch)amnésia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ammnésie
  • amnesie
  • amnnésie
  • amnséie
  • amnéise
  • amnései
  • amnéssie
  • aménsie
  • anmésie
  • manésie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amnésie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ammnésie1amnesie1amnnésie1amnséie2amnéise2amnései2amnéssie1aménsie2
Edit distance from "amnésie"

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 "amnésie"?
"amnésie" is spelled A-M-N-É-S-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \am.ne.zi\.
What does "amnésie" mean?
As a noun, "amnésie" means: Affaiblissement ou perte de la mémoire.
What words are commonly confused with "amnésie"?
"amnésie" is commonly confused with "amnesty", "amnistie", "amnésique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amnésie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amnésie" is \am.ne.zi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amnésie" come from?
"amnésie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Alfredo#26,251annexée#26,259ardente#26,264Adriana#26,245

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

acompte10 variantsbianchi10 variantsépicier10 variantsBourdieu10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list