mairesse
\mɛ.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“mairesse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,590
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , , La première officière municipale d’une commune, municipalité ou arrondissement, élue, en France, par les conseillers municipaux à l’issue des élections municipales, en Suisse et au Canada, dire...
Corpus desk
Index FR-mairesse · mairesse · French
mairesse · rank #31,590 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,590
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malicieux
Nearest frequency peer: malicieux (+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 « mairesse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ludo
ludo
68,415 corpus weight
- luxure
luxure
68,414 corpus weight
- mairesse
mairesse
68,411 corpus weight
- malicieux
malicieux
68,410 corpus weight
- malveillant
malveillant
68,409 corpus weight
- manivelle
manivelle
68,408 corpus weight
What this shows « mairesse » 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 | mairesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mairesse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mairesse (IPA \mɛ.ʁɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,590 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mairesse, with forms such as "amiresse", "maiersse", and "mairese". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maîtresse", "maîtresses", "maires", 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 mairesse, spelled M-A-I-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1, , La première officière municipale d’une commune, municipalité ou arrondissement, élue, en France, par les conseillers municipaux à l’issue des élections municipales, en Suisse et au Canada, directement par le corps électoral.
- 2Épouse du maire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mairesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tel est le comble de cette histoire. Car la mairesse qui a eu ma peau a elle aussi été condamnée – pour avoir organisé un faux mariage. Elle a marié un homme dans le coma.
Commémorations pour les héros et pour Hidalgo la mairesse de Paris, les à-côtés de la plaque, marchant à côté de leurs pompes… funèbres. D’un côté des héros, de l’autre des zéros pour l’orthographe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amiresse
- maiersse
- mairese
- maireses
- mairresse
- mairsese
- mariesse
- miaresse
- mmairesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mairesse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).