Maasai
/ˈmɑːsaɪ/
"maasai" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maasai” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,598
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maasai · Maasai · English
Maasai · rank #46,598 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,598
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maas
Nearest frequency peer: maas (-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 “Maasai”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- Manchurian
Manchurian
53,399 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Maasai” 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 | Maasai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɑːsaɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Maasai” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Maasai (IPA /ˈmɑːsaɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,598 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maasai, with forms such as "amasai", "maaasi", and "maasia". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "masa", "massa", "maas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Maasai, spelled M-A-A-S-A-I.
Definition
- 1A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maasai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perf…
According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amasai
- maaasi
- maasia
- maassai
- masaai
- masai
- mmaasai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maasai - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maasai", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "Maasai" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "masa". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #46,598 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.