maison forte
\mɛ.zɔ̃ fɔʁt\
The verdict
“maison forte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Construction moyenâgeuse constituant la demeure d’une famille riche, destinée à lui permettre de se défendre en cas d’attaque de brigands, de pirates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maison forte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.zɔ̃ fɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maison forte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maison forte is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.zɔ̃ fɔʁt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maison forte in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 maison forte, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -F-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Construction moyenâgeuse constituant la demeure d’une famille riche, destinée à lui permettre de se défendre en cas d’attaque de brigands, de pirates.
- 2Sorte de blockhaus surmonté d'une habitation pour loger les soldats.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-S-O-N- -F-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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