magma
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,031
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
magma is aFrenchnoun. It means: Résidu épais, lie restant après l’expression des parties fluides d’une substance. Pronounced \maɡ.ma\. Often confused with MMA and mam.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maɡ.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for magma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maɡ.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,031 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for magma, with forms such as "amgma", "magam", and "maggma". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MMA", "mam", "méga", 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 magma, spelled M-A-G-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Résidu épais, lie restant après l’expression des parties fluides d’une substance.
- 2Bouillie.
- 3Ensemble confus d’éléments ; mélange indistinct.
- 4Mélange pâteux, plus ou moins fluide, de matières minérales (roches) en fusion, provenant des zones profondes de la terre, où les roches en fusion sont soumises à des conditions extrêmes de pression et de température.
- 5Structure algébrique constituée d’un ensemble et d'une loi de composition interne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amgma,magam,maggma,magmma,mamga,mgama,mmagma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for magma
Misspelling Variants of "magma"
Frequency rank: #29,031 in French
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Nearby French words
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