Maïa
\ma.ja\
The verdict
“Maïa” is uncommon French (frequency #63,917 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,917
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des sept Pléiades dans la mythologie grecque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maia · Maïa · French
Maïa · rank #63,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,917
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mayday
Nearest frequency peer: mayday (-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 « Maïa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mattia
Mattia
36,087 corpus weight
- maximisation
maximisation
36,086 corpus weight
- mayday
mayday
36,085 corpus weight
- Maïa
Maïa
36,084 corpus weight
- medico
medico
36,082 corpus weight
- meek
meek
36,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maïa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maïa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maïa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maïa is uncommon French at frequency #63,917 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Maïa, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Maïa, spelled M-A-Ï-A.
Definition
- 1Une des sept Pléiades dans la mythologie grecque.
- 2Déesse-mère de la mythologie romaine.
- 3Une étoile dans l’amas des Pléiades.
- 4(66) Maïa, internationalement (66) Maja, un astéroïde de la ceinture principale découvert par Horace Parnell Tuttle le 9 avril 1861.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maïa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maïa est l’aînée des Pléiades.
Maïa est une divinité romaine moins connue, parfois présentée comme la femme de Vulcain.
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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