mâche
\mɑʃ\
The verdict
“mâche” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,456
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de Valerianella locusta, plante potagère de la famille des Caprifoliaceae (caprifoliacées) que l'on mange en salade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mache · mâche · French
mâche · rank #29,456 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,456
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mules
Nearest frequency peer: mules (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mâche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moue
moue
70,548 corpus weight
- mouillage
mouillage
70,547 corpus weight
- mules
mules
70,546 corpus weight
- mâche
mâche
70,545 corpus weight
- métadonnées
métadonnées
70,544 corpus weight
- Nadeau
Nadeau
70,543 corpus weight
What this shows « mâche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mâche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mâche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around mâche (IPA \mɑʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,456 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom vulgaire de Valerianella locusta, plante potagère de la famille des Caprifoliaceae (caprifoliacées) que l'on mange en salade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mâche, with forms such as "mache", "mcâhe", and "mmâche". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mah", "made", "make", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mâche, spelled M-Â-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de Valerianella locusta, plante potagère de la famille des Caprifoliaceae (caprifoliacées) que l'on mange en salade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mâche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La texture plus solide de la mâche, la rend moins facile à digérer ; & dans le fait la mâche ainsi mangée, est indigeste pour beaucoup de sujets.
Résistante au gel, la mâche est une salade d’hiver classique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mache
- mcâhe
- mmâche
- mâcche
- mâceh
- mâchhe
- mâhce
- âmche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mâche - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).