maïeur
French, noun\ma.jœʁ\
maïeur is spelled M-A-Ï-E-U-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 117,104th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maïeur is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of mayeur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de mayeur”.
What does maïeur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of mayeur
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de mayeur.
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 maïeur
- maïeurs plural
- maïeure feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maïeur?
- \ma.jœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maïeur in French?
maïeur appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).