magistrat

/\ma.ʒis.tʁa\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,588

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

magistrat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Officier civil revêtu d’une autorité administrative. Pronounced \ma.ʒis.tʁa\. It ranks #7,588 in French word frequency. Often confused with magistrats and magistral.

Key facts for magistrat
PropertyValue
Headwordmagistrat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʒis.tʁa\
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,588
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for magistrat is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒis.tʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,588 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 magistrat, with forms such as "amgistrat", "maggistrat", and "magisrtat". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "magistrats", "magistral", "magistrale", 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 magistrat, spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Officier civil revêtu d’une autorité administrative.
  2. 2
    Celui qui rend la justice ou la requiert (juge, procureur ou conseiller).
  3. 3
    Juge.
  4. 4
    Administration municipale sous forme collégiale de certaines villes européennes du Moyen-Âge au XVIIIᵉ siècle.
  5. 5
    Colobe magistrat.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amgistrat,maggistrat,magisrtat,magisstrat,magistart,magistratt,magistrrat,magistrta,magisttrat,magitsrat,magsitrat,maigstrat,mgaistrat,mmagistrat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for magistrat

Misspelling Variants of "magistrat"

amgistrat9maggistrat10magisrtat9magisstrat10magistart9magistratt10magistrrat10magistrta9
Misspelling Variants of "magistrat"

Frequency rank: #7,588 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "magistrat"?
"magistrat" is spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-R-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒis.tʁa\.
What does "magistrat" mean?
As a noun, "magistrat" means: Officier civil revêtu d’une autorité administrative.
What words are commonly confused with "magistrat"?
"magistrat" is commonly confused with "magistrats", "magistral", "magistrale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "magistrat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "magistrat" is \ma.ʒis.tʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "magistrat" come from?
"magistrat" 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.