mami
\ma.mi\
The verdict
“mami” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,158) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,158
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourrisson, petit enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mami · mami · French
mami · rank #45,158 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,158
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH machisme
Nearest frequency peer: machisme (-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 « mami »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Länder
Länder
54,846 corpus weight
- machado
machado
54,845 corpus weight
- machisme
machisme
54,844 corpus weight
- mami
mami
54,843 corpus weight
- mandibule
mandibule
54,842 corpus weight
- manifestés
manifestés
54,841 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mami » 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 | mami |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.mi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mami »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mami is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "mi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ma.mi\. Frequency #45,158 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mami, with forms such as "ammi", "mammi", and "mmai". 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, "mm", "mi", "moi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 mami, spelled M-A-M-I.
Definition
- 1Nourrisson, petit enfant.
- 2Lyonnais de tout âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mami appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lequel de nous, en voyant un petit mami, bien drôle, ne s’est laissé aller au plaisir de le caresser en lui disant : « Ma braise, mon belin, ma coque, ma rate, mon petit chou, mon petit trognon, mon petit boson, le restant de mes écus » et tant d’autres jolis mots. Mêmement qu’il y en a qui les disent aux grandes personnes, du moins quand celles-ci sont e…
C’est que ça c’est z’un mami que sait vous emboîmer, çuilà, t’y pas vrai, les gones ? qui sait vous conter de gognandises : y vous embarlificote, y vous fait cuire le gigier à feurce de vous faire rigoler. Nom d’un rat, qué platine il a, ce gone ; y vous envoye de calembours tousse pu chenus les uns que les autres ; et puis c’est un mami que n’est pas cra…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammi
- mammi
- mmai
- mmami
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mami - 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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).