maire
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,142
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Premier officier municipal d’une commune, municipalité ou arrondissement, élu, en France, par les conseillers municipaux à l’issue des élections municipales, en Suisse, soit directement par le corp... Pronounced \mɛʁ\. It ranks #1,142 in French word frequency. Often confused with mar and mie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maire is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,142 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for maire, with forms such as "amire", "maier", and "mairre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mar", "mie", "mir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maire, spelled M-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Premier officier municipal d’une commune, municipalité ou arrondissement, élu, en France, par les conseillers municipaux à l’issue des élections municipales, en Suisse, soit directement par le corps électoral (Jura), soit chaque année pour une année par le conseil municipal (Genève).
- 2Sorte de conseiller du roi qui, en fait, sous les mérovingiens, exerçait le pouvoir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amire,maier,mairre,marie,miare,mmaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maire
Misspelling Variants of "maire"
Frequency rank: #1,142 in French
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