mamie
\ma.mi\
The verdict
“mamie” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,578
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand-mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mamie · mamie · French
mamie · rank #8,578 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,578
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH longuement
Nearest frequency peer: longuement (-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 « mamie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- logiquement
logiquement
91,426 corpus weight
- London
London
91,425 corpus weight
- longuement
longuement
91,424 corpus weight
- mamie
mamie
91,423 corpus weight
- minorités
minorités
91,421 corpus weight
- modifiée
modifiée
91,420 corpus weight
What this shows « mamie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mamie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.mi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mamie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mamie (IPA \ma.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,578 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mamie, with forms such as "maime", "mamei", and "mammie". 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, "Mme", "mie", "mari", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mamie, spelled M-A-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Grand-mère.
- 2Vieille dame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mamie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je l'adorais : puisque c'était ma grand-mère. On m'avait suggéré de l'appeler mamie, d'appeler le chef de famille par son prénom alsacien, Karl. Karl et mamie, ça sonnait mieux que Roméo et Juliette, que Philémon et Baucis.
Ma grand-mère a des principes, elle est le cadre rigide et clair de mon enfance, celui sur lequel on s'appuie, à l'opposé de l'agitation trouble de l'hôtel. Pas de bruit le dimanche chez mamie, pas de vélo, la table est un lieu de silence, pas une friterie de gare.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- maime
- mamei
- mammie
- mmaie
- mmamie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mamie - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).