amarvsamiWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: amar is a verb, ami is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“amar” is a verb and “ami” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,048
“amar” frequency rank
#665
“ami” frequency rank
28713
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amar ami
Definition Aimer. Qui est bienveillant, obligeant, amical.

Letter map: amar vs ami

Shared letters muted; letters that set amar and ami apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
amar
3 ch
ami

Part-of-speech tell for amar / ami

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: amar is averb and amianadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28713, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amar is recorded at frequency rank #28,048, classified as averb. ami is at rank #665, tagged as anadj, 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 28713, this pair ranks #321,144 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amar vs ami

Shared letters: am. Private to "amar": r. Private to "ami": i.

"amar" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "ami" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amaraamr · amarr · ammar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "amar" and "ami" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amar" is a verb and "ami" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "amar" or "ami"?
"ami" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #665 in our French list, against #28,048 for "amar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "amar" vs "ami" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ami" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #321,144 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amar" and "ami" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amar vs aur". 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 #321,144 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