maçon
\ma.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“maçon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,438
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au métier des maçons ou leur est comparable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macon · maçon · French
maçon · rank #15,438 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,438
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mayotte
Nearest frequency peer: Mayotte (-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 « maçon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marraine
marraine
84,566 corpus weight
- Mayenne
Mayenne
84,565 corpus weight
- Mayotte
Mayotte
84,564 corpus weight
- maçon
maçon
84,563 corpus weight
- membrane
membrane
84,562 corpus weight
- menait
menait
84,561 corpus weight
What this shows « maçon » 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 | maçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maçon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around maçon (IPA \ma.sɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,438 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for maçon, with forms such as "amçon", "macon", and "maoçn". 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, "mon", "man", "main", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maçon, spelled M-A-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au métier des maçons ou leur est comparable.
- 2Qui est propre aux franc-maçonnes et aux franc-maçons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maçon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mygale maçonne
En réaction à l’anticléricalisme d'une partie de la maçonnerie, la GLNF fut constituée en 1913. Ce faisant, elle s’inscrivait dans la longue tradition maçonne du Grand Architecte de l’Univers et retenait comme fondement la notion de transcendance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amçon
- macon
- maoçn
- maçno
- maçonn
- mmaçon
- mçaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maçon - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).