mamies
\ma.mi\
The verdict
“mamies” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,365
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mamie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mamies · mamies · French
mamies · rank #40,365 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,365
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maliennes
Nearest frequency peer: maliennes (-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 « mamies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malabar
malabar
59,638 corpus weight
- maliennes
maliennes
59,637 corpus weight
- mamies
mamies
59,636 corpus weight
- maquereau
maquereau
59,635 corpus weight
- margarine
margarine
59,634 corpus weight
- Marigny
Marigny
59,633 corpus weight
What this shows « mamies » 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 | mamies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mamies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mamies (IPA \ma.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,365 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de mamie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mamies, with forms such as "maimes", "mameis", and "mamiess". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mmes", "mêmes", "marié", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mamies, spelled M-A-M-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mamie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mamies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur sa bascule, les mamies posent leurs charges de cacao et attendent.
Et comme Camille était l’enfant d’un couple divorcé, et recomposé plusieurs fois, elle en avait à revendre des mamans, des mams, des mumies, des tatas, des taties, des mémés, des mamés, des mamies et des sœurettes… Et toutes voulaient goûter au célèbre séga piqué dans les bras d’un authentique Créole à la peau bronzée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- maimes
- mameis
- mamiess
- mamise
- mammies
- mmaies
- mmamies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mamies - 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 "mamies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).