Maia
The verdict
“Maia” is uncommon German (frequency #70,536 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,536
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine der sieben Plejaden und Mutter von Merkur; Maja
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Maia” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Maia is uncommon German at frequency #70,536 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine der sieben Plejaden und Mutter von Merkur; Maja".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Maia, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Maia, spelled M-A-I-A.
Definition
- 1eine der sieben Plejaden und Mutter von Merkur; Maja
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Maia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.