Maël
\ma.ɛl\
The verdict
“Maël” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,449
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom épicène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mael · Maël · French
Maël · rank #47,449 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,449
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maverick
Nearest frequency peer: maverick (-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 « Maël »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marinière
marinière
52,556 corpus weight
- matrimonial…
matrimoniales
52,555 corpus weight
- Maura
Maura
52,554 corpus weight
- maverick
maverick
52,553 corpus weight
- Maël
Maël
52,552 corpus weight
- medley
medley
52,550 corpus weight
What this shows « Maël » 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 | Maël |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maël »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Maël (IPA \ma.ɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #47,449 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom épicène.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maël, with forms such as "amël", "malë", and "maëll". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "ML", "mes", 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Maël, spelled M-A-Ë-L.
Definition
- 1Prénom épicène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maël appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec Sophie Belloir, mezzo-soprano ; Maël Fauvy, guitariste et compositeur, et Chani Stroobant, violoniste.
Une demande qui a été acceptée par le président du Département, Maël de Calan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amël
- malë
- maëll
- mmaël
- mëal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maël - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maël", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).