mairie
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,430
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mairie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Charge, dignité de maire. Pronounced \me.ʁi\. It ranks #2,430 in French word frequency. Often confused with mari and mare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mairie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mairie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,430 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mairie, with forms such as "amirie", "maiire", and "mairei". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mari", "mare", "marge", 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 mairie, spelled M-A-I-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Charge, dignité de maire.
- 2Bâtiment, ensemble de bâtiments où se tient l’administration municipale (dans certaines villes, on dit aussi hôtel de ville ou maison commune).
- 3Administration et territoire sous l’autorité du maire.
- 4ou Temps durant lequel on exerce la fonction de maire.
- 5Mairie du palais : charge de maire du palais.
- 6Conseil municipal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amirie,maiire,mairei,mairrie,mariie,miarie,mmairie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mairie
Misspelling Variants of "mairie"
Frequency rank: #2,430 in French
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