magistral

/\ma.ʒis.tʁal\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#26,791

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

magistral is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui tient du maître ; qui convient à un maître. Pronounced \ma.ʒis.tʁal\. Often confused with mistral and magistrat.

Key facts for magistral
PropertyValue
Headwordmagistral
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ma.ʒis.tʁal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#26,791
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of magistral in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for magistral is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒis.tʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,791 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for magistral, with forms such as "amgistral", "maggistral", and "magisrtal". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "mistral", "magistrat", "magistrats", and more, 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 magistral, spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui tient du maître ; qui convient à un maître.
  2. 2
    Qui est digne d’un maître, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit, des œuvres d’art.
  3. 3
    Qui est digne d’un maître, en parlant d’un événement humiliant.
  4. 4
    Qualifie une attitude, une manière didactique et compassée.
  5. 5
    Qualifie la ligne principale d’un plan.
  6. 6
    Se dit d'un médicament qui est préparé à la pharmacie, par un pharmacien ou un préparateur, par opposition à celui que l'on nomme officinal.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amgistral,maggistral,magisrtal,magisstral,magistarl,magistrall,magistrla,magistrral,magisttral,magitsral,magsitral,maigstral,mgaistral,mmagistral

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for magistral

Misspelling Variants of "magistral"

amgistral9maggistral10magisrtal9magisstral10magistarl9magistrall10magistrla9magistrral10
Misspelling Variants of "magistral"

Frequency rank: #26,791 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "magistral"?
"magistral" is spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒis.tʁal\.
What does "magistral" mean?
As an adj, "magistral" means: Qui tient du maître ; qui convient à un maître.
What words are commonly confused with "magistral"?
"magistral" is commonly confused with "mistral", "magistrat", "magistrats". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "magistral"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "magistral" is \ma.ʒis.tʁal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "magistral" come from?
"magistral" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.