maharaja
\ma.a.ʁa.dʒa\
The verdict
“maharaja” is uncommon French (frequency #84,041 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,041
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi en Inde, suzerain d’autres rajas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maharaja · maharaja · French
maharaja · rank #84,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,041
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnétite
Nearest frequency peer: magnétite (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maharaja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maar
maar
15,964 corpus weight
- macchabées
macchabées
15,963 corpus weight
- magnétite
magnétite
15,961 corpus weight
- maharaja
maharaja
15,960 corpus weight
- malvoyantes
malvoyantes
15,959 corpus weight
- mapuche
mapuche
15,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maharaja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maharaja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.a.ʁa.dʒa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maharaja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maharaja is uncommon French at frequency #84,041 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.a.ʁa.dʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roi en Inde, suzerain d’autres rajas.".
maharaja has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maharaja, spelled M-A-H-A-R-A-J-A.
Definition
- 1Roi en Inde, suzerain d’autres rajas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maharaja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maharaja de Mysore.
Le maharaja n’avait pas 30 ans ; il avait été l’élève ; de Rachmaninov, mais il avait dû renoncer à une carrière de pianiste pour succéder à son père.
This word in other languages
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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