maids
\mɛjd\
The verdict
“maids” is uncommon French (frequency #84,993 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,993
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maids · maids · French
maids · rank #84,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,993
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magouilleurs
Nearest frequency peer: magouilleurs (-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 « maids »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnets
magnets
15,010 corpus weight
- magouilleurs
magouilleurs
15,009 corpus weight
- maids
maids
15,008 corpus weight
- majorettes
majorettes
15,007 corpus weight
- mancuniens
mancuniens
15,006 corpus weight
- mandater
mandater
15,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maids » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maids |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛjd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maids » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maids is uncommon French at frequency #84,993 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛjd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de maid.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maids, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maids, spelled M-A-I-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maid.
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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