Maude
"maude" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maude” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,211
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maude · Maude · English
Maude · rank #27,211 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,211
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH materialism
Nearest frequency peer: materialism (-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 “Maude”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Maitland
Maitland
72,794 corpus weight
- masquerade
masquerade
72,792 corpus weight
- materialism
materialism
72,791 corpus weight
- Maude
Maude
72,790 corpus weight
- meager
meager
72,788 corpus weight
- melodrama
melodrama
72,787 corpus weight
What this shows “Maude” 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 | Maude |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Maude”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Maude, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,211 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maude, with forms such as "amude", "madue", and "maudde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MUD", "mode", "mute", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Maude, spelled M-A-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.
- 2A locality in the Hay council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- - - he once more changed the subject of Maude's looks to her name, which he heard was really Matilda. She had been called Maude, Matty said, after one who was once a very dear friend both of herself and her husband. "Then we will call her Matilda," said he, "as it is a maxim of mine never to spoil children by giving them pet names."
"Fine," said Blanche, "but 'Maude' sounds anything but continental." "Suppose we change her name to 'Meredith Meredro'," I suggested.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amude
- madue
- maudde
- maued
- mmaude
- muade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maude - 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 "Maude", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).