maires

\mɛʁ\

/\mɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“maires” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,362
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maires · maires · French

maires · rank #5,362 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,362
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH loisirs

Nearest frequency peer: loisirs (-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 « maires »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maires » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maires vs mars
67% similar
maires vs maïs
50% similar
maires vs mare
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maires
PropertyValue
Headwordmaires
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɛʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,362
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maires »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mairesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « loisirs » (#5,361), « manières » (#5,363), « liège » (#5,360). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maires » est au #5,362. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around maires (IPA \mɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,362 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for maires, with forms such as "amires", "maiers", and "mairess". 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, "mars", "maïs", "mare", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maires, spelled M-A-I-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de maire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how maires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sans égard excessif pour l’équipe sortante, dont quelques piliers sont encore à ses côtés, il s’avoue surpris par le nombre de « projets encarafés » qu’il a découverts dans les placards du palais Rohan. Pour « désencarafer », le premier ministre aura besoin de la compréhension de ses 26 collègues maires de la communauté urbaine, d’autant plus jaloux de le…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amires
  • maiers
  • mairess
  • mairres
  • mairse
  • maries
  • miares
  • mmaires

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maires - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amires2maiers2mairess1mairres1mairse2maries2miares2mmaires1
Edit distance from "maires"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maires"?
"maires" is spelled M-A-I-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɛʁ\.
What does "maires" mean?
As a noun, "maires" means: Pluriel de maire.
What words are commonly confused with "maires"?
"maires" is commonly confused with "mars", "maïs", "mare". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maires"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maires" is \mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maires" come from?
"maires" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maires", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

maxime#5,366mineur#5,368musées#5,369neutre#5,371

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

opposer8 variantsparcs8 variantsperds8 variantspriori8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list