maigres
\mɛɡʁ\
The verdict
“maigres” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,476
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maigre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maigres · maigres · French
maigres · rank #17,476 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,476
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH majuscule
Nearest frequency peer: majuscule (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « maigres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lycéen
lycéen
82,529 corpus weight
- légume
légume
82,527 corpus weight
- maigres
maigres
82,525 corpus weight
- majuscule
majuscule
82,524 corpus weight
- Manier
Manier
82,523 corpus weight
- marxisme
marxisme
82,522 corpus weight
What this shows « maigres » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maigres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maigres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maigres (IPA \mɛɡʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,476 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maigre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maigres, with forms such as "amigres", "magires", and "maigers". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "maire", "mares", "migré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 maigres, spelled M-A-I-G-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maigres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques légères mousses, de maigres graminées, verdissaient çà et là, et de petites fleurs, presque incolores, montraient leur humide corolle entre les cailloux.
Voici l’époque d’un second labour pour les semailles d’hiver, l’époque de culbuter avec la charrue les prairies artificielles en fleurs, et destinées à recevoir du froment ; de déchardonner les avoines, de sarcler les lins, de couper le fromental, le sainfoin, le raygrass ; de former des composts avec les herbes que vous avez ramassées ; et si vous avez b…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amigres
- magires
- maigers
- maiggres
- maigress
- maigrres
- maigrse
- mairges
- miagres
- mmaigres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maigres - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).