Maghreb
\ma.ɡʁɛb\
The verdict
“Maghreb” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,509. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,509
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie occidentale de l’Afrique du Nord, comprenant l’Algérie, la Tunisie, le Maroc, la Libye et parfois la Mauritanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maghreb · Maghreb · French
Maghreb · rank #9,509 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,509
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légères
Nearest frequency peer: légères (-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 « Maghreb »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- isolés
isolés
90,496 corpus weight
- légères
légères
90,493 corpus weight
- Maghreb
Maghreb
90,492 corpus weight
- marron
marron
90,491 corpus weight
- maxi
maxi
90,490 corpus weight
- mdr
mdr
90,489 corpus weight
What this shows « Maghreb » 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 | Maghreb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɡʁɛb\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maghreb »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Maghreb (IPA \ma.ɡʁɛb\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,509 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partie occidentale de l’Afrique du Nord, comprenant l’Algérie, la Tunisie, le Maroc, la Libye et parfois la Mauritanie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maghreb, with forms such as "amghreb", "magghreb", and "magherb". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "magret", "maghrébin", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Maghreb, spelled M-A-G-H-R-E-B.
Definition
- 1Partie occidentale de l’Afrique du Nord, comprenant l’Algérie, la Tunisie, le Maroc, la Libye et parfois la Mauritanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maghreb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
45% des tissus des collections du groupe sont tricotés et découpés en France, la confection étant sous-traitée au Maghreb, en Roumanie ou en Asie.
Or le Maghreb s’assèche et la Côte d’Azur et la Provence se « maghrébisent » (voir chapitre 1).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amghreb
- magghreb
- magherb
- maghhreb
- maghrbe
- maghrebb
- maghrreb
- magrheb
- mahgreb
- mgahreb
- mmaghreb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maghreb - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maghreb", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).