magistère
\ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“magistère” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #42,998 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #42,998
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dignité du grand maître d’un ordre militaire et plus particulièrement de l’ordre de Malte.
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 | magistère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “magistère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for magistère is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,998 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for magistère, with forms such as "amgistère", "maggistère", and "magisstère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maistre", "ministère", "magister", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is magistère, spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dignité du grand maître d’un ordre militaire et plus particulièrement de l’ordre de Malte.
- 2Durée du gouvernement d’un grand maître de cet ordre.
- 3Enseignement d’un maître.
- 4Autorité doctrinale que possède le pape en vertu de sa charge de vicaire du Christ, d’interpréter la parole de Dieu et le collège des évêques unis au pape.
- 5Autorité doctrinale, morale ou intellectuelle impliquant une nuance de tyrannie.
- 6Diplôme national d’excellence en France créé en 1985, préparé en trois années d’études supérieures, comprenant depuis la réforme la dernière année de licence universitaire et les deux années de master.
- 7Composés ordinairement minéraux cités dans le codex auxquels étaient attribuées des vertus particulières et dont la préparation était souvent tenue secrète.
- 8Fonctionnaire militaire, policier ou religieux utilisant la magie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amgistère,maggistère,magisstère,magistere,magistrèe,magisttère,magistèer,magistèrre,magisètre,magitsère,magsitère,maigstère,mgaistère,mmagistère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magistère - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "magistère"
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 “magistère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-G-I-S-T-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “maistre” - see the side-by-side comparison. magistère vs maistre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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