maestro
\ma.ɛs.tʁo\
The verdict
“maestro” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #20,490 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #20,490
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Compositeur de musique ou chef d’orchestre en renom.
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 | maestro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɛs.tʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maestro” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maestro is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ɛs.tʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,490 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maestro, with forms such as "amestro", "maesrto", and "maesstro". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "metro", "mestre", "maistre", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maestro, spelled M-A-E-S-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1Compositeur de musique ou chef d’orchestre en renom.
- 2Musicien reconnu pour sa compétence.
- 3Virtuose.
- 4Sorte de piano où les cordes sont remplacées par une combinaisons de tubes et de lames en métal ainsi que des cloches en verre et en métal. Cet instrument à été breveté en 1888 par un certain Jourdain.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amestro,maesrto,maesstro,maestor,maestrro,maesttro,maetsro,masetro,meastro,mmaestro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maestro - 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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Using “maestro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-E-S-T-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ɛs.tʁo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “metro” - see the side-by-side comparison. maestro vs metro
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.