magister
\ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“magister” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,025
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître d’école.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magister · magister · French
magister · rank #48,025 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,025
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH machiste
Nearest frequency peer: machiste (-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 « magister »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- macaire
macaire
51,978 corpus weight
- machiste
machiste
51,977 corpus weight
- magister
magister
51,976 corpus weight
- Maintenon
Maintenon
51,975 corpus weight
- Majid
Majid
51,974 corpus weight
- mangerais
mangerais
51,972 corpus weight
What this shows « magister » 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 | magister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magister »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around magister (IPA \ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,025 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for magister, with forms such as "amgister", "maggister", and "magisetr". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "master", "mister", "maoïste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 magister, spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Maître d’école.
- 2Personnage pédant ou dogmatique.
- 3Fonctionnaire militaire, policier ou religieux utilisant la magie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un magister de village.
Comme un petit pays de douze et quinze feux ne peut pas toujours nourrir un magister, ils ont des maîtres d’école payés par toute la vallée, qui parcourent les villages, passant huit jours dans celui-ci, dix dans celui-là, et enseignent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgister
- maggister
- magisetr
- magisster
- magisterr
- magistre
- magistter
- magitser
- magsiter
- maigster
- mgaister
- mmagister
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magister - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).