Maitland
"maitland" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maitland” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,207
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maitland · Maitland · English
Maitland · rank #27,207 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,207
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mags
Nearest frequency peer: Mags (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Maitland”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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72,796 corpus weight
- Mags
Mags
72,795 corpus weight
- Maitland
Maitland
72,794 corpus weight
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masquerade
72,792 corpus weight
- materialism
materialism
72,791 corpus weight
- Maude
Maude
72,790 corpus weight
What this shows “Maitland” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Maitland |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Maitland”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Maitland, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,207 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maitland, with forms such as "amitland", "mailtand", and "maitalnd". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "midland", "Maryland", "mainland", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain, possibly a nickname for an ungracious individual, from Anglo-Norman maltalent (“bad temper”). However, it could also derive from the French village of Mautalant, in Normandy. The correct English form is Maitland, spelled M-A-I-T-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1A surname from Anglo-Norman.
- 2A place name:
- 3A place name:
- 4A place name:
- 5A place name:
- 6A place name:
- 7A place name:
- 8A place name:
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly a nickname for an ungracious individual, from Anglo-Norman maltalent (“bad temper”). However, it could also derive from the French village of Mautalant, in Normandy.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amitland
- mailtand
- maitalnd
- maitladn
- maitlandd
- maitlannd
- maitlland
- maitlnad
- maittland
- matiland
- miatland
- mmaitland
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maitland - 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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maitland", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).