magistrat

\ma.ʒis.tʁa\

/\ma.ʒis.tʁa\/ noun

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The verdict

“magistrat” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,588
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier civil revêtu d’une autorité administrative.

Corpus desk

Index FR-magistrat · magistrat · French

magistrat · rank #7,588 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,588
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH légers

Nearest frequency peer: légers (-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 « magistrat »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « magistrat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

magistrat vs magistrats
90% similar
magistrat vs magistral
89% similar
magistrat vs magistrale
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magistrat »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).magistratse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « légers » (#7,587), « maintenu » (#7,589), « kit » (#7,586). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « magistrat » est au #7,588. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around magistrat (IPA \ma.ʒis.tʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,588 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for magistrat, with forms such as "amgistrat", "maggistrat", and "magisrtat". 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, "magistrats", "magistral", "magistrale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is magistrat, spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-R-A-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how magistrat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On trouverait aujourd'hui étrange que des magistrats se missent à la tête de bandes armées, comme cela avait lieu à Rome durant les dernières années de la République.
  2. Le maire, premier magistrat de la ville, est le représentant de l'Etat dans la commune.

Synonyms

homme de loi

This word in other languages

magistrate(English)magistrado(Español)Stadträt(Deutsch)magistrado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amgistrat
  • maggistrat
  • magisrtat
  • magisstrat
  • magistart
  • magistratt
  • magistrrat
  • magistrta
  • magisttrat
  • magitsrat
  • magsitrat
  • maigstrat
  • mgaistrat
  • mmagistrat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magistrat - 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.

amgistrat2maggistrat1magisrtat2magisstrat1magistart2magistratt1magistrrat1magistrta2
Edit distance from "magistrat"

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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "magistrat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

masculine#7,594injustice#7,581mentalité#7,595mortalité#7,599

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

infanterie14 variantsproposées14 variantsrenverser14 variantsressembler14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list