ami
/ˈa.mi/
The verdict
“ami” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,434) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,434
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - amar, gostar de
Corpus desk
Index PT-ami · ami · Portuguese
ami · rank #13,434 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,434
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH amável
Nearest frequency peer: amável (+1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “ami”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Abraham
Abraham
86,575 corpus weight
- agredir
agredir
86,570 corpus weight
- ami
ami
86,567 corpus weight
- amável
amável
86,566 corpus weight
- anulação
anulação
86,565 corpus weight
- apreciação
apreciação
86,564 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ami” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | ami |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈa.mi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ami”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ami is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ao", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈa.mi/. Frequency #13,434 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "amar, gostar de".
Zero misspellings are on record for ami in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ao", "ar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ami, spelled A-M-I.
Definition
- 1amar, gostar de
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).