adminsvsamisWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“admins” and “amis” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#45,413
“admins” frequency rank
#444
“amis” frequency rank
45857
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admins amis
Definition Pluriel de admin. Pluriel de ami.

Where the eye mixes admins and amis

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
admins
4 ch
amis

Visual trap between admins and amis

A purely visual mix-up. admins (\ad.min\) and amis (\a.mi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45857, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

admins is recorded at frequency rank #45,413, classified as anoun, pronounced \ad.min\. amis is at rank #444, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.mi\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 45857, this pair ranks #199,492 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of admins vs amis

Shared letters: aims. Private to "admins": dn. Private to "amis": -.

"admins" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC  ·  "amis" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adminsaddmins · adimns · adminns · adminss · admisn · admmins · admnis · amdins
  • amisaims · amiss · ammis · amsi · mais

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "admins" and "amis" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\ad.min\ versus \a.mi\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "admins" vs "amis" - which ranks higher?
"amis" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #444 in our French list, against #45,413 for "admins". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "admins" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "amis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #199,492 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admins" and "amis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admins vs ains". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #199,492 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list