MAIF
\ma.if\
The verdict
“MAIF” is uncommon French (frequency #54,709 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,709
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société d’assurance mutuelle française dont le siège est à Niort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maif · MAIF · French
MAIF · rank #54,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,709
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magnon
Nearest frequency peer: magnon (-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 « MAIF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macroscopiq…
macroscopique
45,295 corpus weight
- magnats
magnats
45,294 corpus weight
- magnon
magnon
45,293 corpus weight
- MAIF
MAIF
45,292 corpus weight
- maigreur
maigreur
45,291 corpus weight
- Malacca
Malacca
45,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MAIF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MAIF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.if\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MAIF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MAIF is uncommon French at frequency #54,709 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.if\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Société d’assurance mutuelle française dont le siège est à Niort.".
MAIF doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is MAIF, spelled M-A-I-F.
Definition
- 1Société d’assurance mutuelle française dont le siège est à Niort.
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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