maio
\mˈaj.u\
The verdict
“maio” is uncommon French (frequency #69,217 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,217
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maio · maio · French
maio · rank #69,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,217
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maha
Nearest frequency peer: maha (-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 « maio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macfarlane
macfarlane
30,787 corpus weight
- Madani
Madani
30,786 corpus weight
- maha
maha
30,785 corpus weight
- maio
maio
30,784 corpus weight
- malfaisante
malfaisante
30,783 corpus weight
- maléfice
maléfice
30,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mˈaj.u\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maio is uncommon French at frequency #69,217 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mˈaj.u\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mai.".
Zero misspellings are on record for maio in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 maio, spelled M-A-I-O.
Definition
- 1Mai.
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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