mauri
/ˈmaʊɹi/
"mauri" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mauri” is uncommon English (frequency #96,209 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,209
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Life force, according to Maori beliefs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mauri · mauri · English
mauri · rank #96,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,209
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Maughan
Nearest frequency peer: Maughan (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “mauri”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Masefield
Masefield
3,798 corpus weight
- Maughan
Maughan
3,793 corpus weight
- mauri
mauri
3,792 corpus weight
- Maurya
Maurya
3,791 corpus weight
- McKie
McKie
3,788 corpus weight
- McKittrick
McKittrick
3,787 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mauri” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mauri |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaʊɹi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mauri” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mauri is uncommon English at frequency #96,209 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmaʊɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Life force, according to Maori beliefs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mauri in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Māori mauri. The correct English form is mauri, spelled M-A-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1Life force, according to Maori beliefs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mauri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We're just cuzzies from down at the marae down the road that are trying to be proactive and look after our whenua, look after our stories, and look after the mauri of our awa, our river.
Etymology
Borrowed from Māori mauri.
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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