maie
French, noun/mɛ/
maie is spelled M-A-I-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maie is a French feminine noun meaning “kneading trough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pétrin de boulanger”.
What does maie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekneading trough
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pétrin de boulanger. 2. Huche à pain, servant à le pétrir et le ranger. 3. Vase oblong servant à porter la farine au pétrin. 4. Caisse servant à tamiser le salpêtre dans les poudreries.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of maie
- maies plural
- mai
- mait
- mée
- met
- mette
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maie?
- /mɛ/
- \mɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maie in French?
maie appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).