Which to use
“maki” and “mamy” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #42,449
- “maki” frequency rank
- #43,543
- “mamy” frequency rank
- 85992
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | maki | mamy |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Espèce de la famille des lémuridés vivant à Madagascar, à museau allongé, au pelage épais et laineux et à la queue longue et touffue. | Variante de mamie. |
Where the eye mixes maki and mamy
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. maki and mamy follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: maki vs mamy
A purely visual mix-up. maki (\ma.ki\) and mamy (\ma.mi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85992, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
maki is recorded at frequency rank #42,449, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.ki\. mamy is at rank #43,543, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ma.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 85992, this pair ranks #10,427 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of maki vs mamy
Shared letters: am. Private to "maki": ik. Private to "mamy": y.
"maki" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "mamy" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "maki" for "mamy" ever safe?
Frequency check: "maki" vs "mamy" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "maki" and "mamy" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "maki" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mamy" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #10,427 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "maki" and "mamy" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mamy vs memo". 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 #10,427 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.