Mayotte
/maɪˈɒt/
"mayotte" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mayotte” is uncommon English (frequency #86,499 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,499
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mayotte · Mayotte · English
Mayotte · rank #86,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,499
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH masturbator
Nearest frequency peer: masturbator (-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 “Mayotte”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- marler
marler
13,506 corpus weight
- Marquand
Marquand
13,505 corpus weight
- masturbator
masturbator
13,503 corpus weight
- Mayotte
Mayotte
13,502 corpus weight
- McCully
McCully
13,499 corpus weight
- McTavish
McTavish
13,498 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mayotte” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mayotte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /maɪˈɒt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mayotte” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mayotte is uncommon English at frequency #86,499 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /maɪˈɒt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mayotte, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”). The correct English form is Mayotte, spelled M-A-Y-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mayotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At least several hundred people are feared to have been killed after the worst cyclone in almost a century ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, uprooting trees, tearing houses apart and pounding the impoverished archipelago’s already weak infrastructure.
Etymology
From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).
This word in other languages
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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