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maisonette

/meɪ.zəˈnɛt/noun

maisonette is spelled M-A-I-S-O-N-E-T-T-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maisonette means “A small house” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maisonette is maisonettes.

How many letters and syllables are in maisonette?

Letters10: M-A-I-S-O-N-E-T-T-E
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is maisonette?

Maisonette appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce maisonette?

  • /meɪ.zəˈnɛt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of maisonette

  • maisonettes plural
  • maisonnette

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does maisonette mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A small house.

  2. 2

    An apartment, often on two floors.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Maisonette in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmaisonnette (small house), duplex (apartment, often on two floors)
GermanMaisonette, Maisonettenwohnung (apartment, often on two floors)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does maisonette come from?

Borrowed from French maisonnette. Doublet of mansionette.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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