mai que mai
The verdict
“mai que mai” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Surtout, le plus souvent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mai que mai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈmaj‿ke‿ˈmai\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mai que mai” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mai que mai is 11 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmaj‿ke‿ˈmai\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mai que mai in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 mai que mai, spelled M-A-I- -Q-U-E- -M-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Surtout, le plus souvent.
- 2Extrêmement.
- 3De plus en plus
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Using “mai que mai”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I- -Q-U-E- -M-A-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈmaj‿ke‿ˈmai\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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