ma

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ma is 2 letters long, classified as asymbol. Corpus data places it at rank #93 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Symbole du préfixe myria-, signifiant 10⁴.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ma in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ma, spelled M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.