tamis
\ta.mi\
The verdict
“tamis” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,577
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de crible, de sas qui sert à passer des matières pulvérulentes, les liquides troubles, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamis · tamis · French
tamis · rank #37,577 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,577
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH survivance
Nearest frequency peer: survivance (-2 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 « tamis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- subsidiaire
subsidiaire
62,428 corpus weight
- surmontées
surmontées
62,427 corpus weight
- survivance
survivance
62,426 corpus weight
- tamis
tamis
62,424 corpus weight
- tatars
tatars
62,422 corpus weight
- tende
tende
62,421 corpus weight
What this shows « tamis » 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 | tamis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.mi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tamis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tamis (IPA \ta.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,577 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tamis, with forms such as "atmis", "taims", and "tamiss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tas", "taxi", "this", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tamis, spelled T-A-M-I-S.
Definition
- 1Sorte de crible, de sas qui sert à passer des matières pulvérulentes, les liquides troubles, etc.
- 2Maillage servant à frapper la balle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tamis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Personne qui, […], a fait une étude très-approfondie du lupulin, conseille, pour extraire cette matière des cônes du houblon, défroisser les cônes entiers sur un tamis de crin, […].
Au cours de ces dernières années, de nombreux modèles nouveaux de tamis pour le classement granulométrique du charbon, sont entrés en service dans l'industrie houillère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atmis
- taims
- tamiss
- tammis
- tamsi
- tmais
- ttamis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tamis - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).