maas
/mɑːs/
"maas" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,597) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,597
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 1
- tracked misspelling
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sour milk
Corpus desk
Index EN-maas · maas · English
maas · rank #46,597 · 1 variant · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,597
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 1 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Maasai
Nearest frequency peer: Maasai (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “maas”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Longview
Longview
53,409 corpus weight
- lyre
lyre
53,406 corpus weight
- maas
maas
53,404 corpus weight
- Maasai
Maasai
53,403 corpus weight
- magnanimous
magnanimous
53,402 corpus weight
- magus
magus
53,401 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “maas” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | maas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɑːs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 1 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maas” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for maas is neighbouring look-alikes ("MS", "may", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mɑːs/. Frequency #46,597 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "sour milk".
Our generated misspelling index lists 1 likely wrong-spelling variant for maas, including "mmaas". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MS", "may", "man", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Zulu. The correct English form is maas, spelled M-A-A-S.
Definition
- 1sour milk
Etymology
From Zulu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmaas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maas - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "maas" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "MS". View pair
- 1 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #46,597 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
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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.