RMI
\ɛ.ʁ‿ɛ.m‿i\
The verdict
“RMI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,577) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,577
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allocation française constituant un minimum social s’adressant aux personnes sans ressources en âge de travailler mais n’ayant pas droit aux allocations chômage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rmi · RMI · French
RMI · rank #47,577 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,577
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revêtus
Nearest frequency peer: revêtus (-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 « RMI »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- resterez
resterez
52,427 corpus weight
- retournerais
retournerais
52,426 corpus weight
- revêtus
revêtus
52,425 corpus weight
- RMI
RMI
52,424 corpus weight
- Roscoff
Roscoff
52,422 corpus weight
- Rotrou
Rotrou
52,421 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « RMI » 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 | RMI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁ‿ɛ.m‿i\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « RMI »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for RMI is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛ.ʁ‿ɛ.m‿i\. Frequency #47,577 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Allocation française constituant un minimum social s’adressant aux personnes sans ressources en âge de travailler mais n’ayant pas droit aux allocations chômage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for RMI, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is RMI, spelled R-M-I.
Definition
- 1Allocation française constituant un minimum social s’adressant aux personnes sans ressources en âge de travailler mais n’ayant pas droit aux allocations chômage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how RMI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Argent mon ami tu n’es pas très fidèle Et tu n’es pas souvent là quand j’ai vraiment besoin de toi Mais où es-tu, argent, quand mon frigo fait pipi Quand j’ai beaucoup trop perçu mon ami le RMI
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).