AhmetvsaiméWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Ahmet is a name, aimé is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Ahmet” is a name and “aimé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,989
“Ahmet” frequency rank
#1,466
“aimé” frequency rank
47455
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Ahmet aimé
Definition Prénom masculin turc. Chéri.

Where the eye mixes Ahmet and aimé

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

5 ch
Ahmet
4 ch
aimé

Look-alike desk: Ahmet vs aimé

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Ahmet is \ah.ˈmet\ while aimé is \ɛ.me\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (name vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Ahmet is recorded at frequency rank #45,989, classified as aname, pronounced \ah.ˈmet\. aimé is at rank #1,466, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ.me\.

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 47455, this pair ranks #186,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Ahmet vs aimé

Shared letters: am. Private to "Ahmet": eht. Private to "aimé": .

"Ahmet" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "aimé" · 4 letters · shape VVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Ahmetahemt · ahhmet · ahmett · ahmmet · ahmte · amhet · hamet

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Ahmet" and "aimé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Ahmet" is a name and "aimé" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Ahmet" or "aimé"?
"aimé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,466 in our French list, against #45,989 for "Ahmet". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "Ahmet" and "aimé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Ahmet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aimé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #186,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Ahmet" and "aimé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ahem vs Ahmet". 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 #186,795 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