maison-mère
\mɛ.zɔ̃.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“maison-mère” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison principale où résident les supérieurs d’une congrégation de l’un ou de l’autre sexe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maison-mere · maison-mère · French
maison-mère · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maison-mère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.zɔ̃.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
maison-mère is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛ.zɔ̃.mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maison-mère, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maison-mère, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N---M-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Maison principale où résident les supérieurs d’une congrégation de l’un ou de l’autre sexe.
- 2Siège principal d’une société détenant des filiales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maison-mère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque la dotation est jugée suffisante, le prieur de la Grande-Chartreuse désigne le prieur et les moines qui prendront possession des lieux […] et la nouvelle communauté est immédiatement soumise à l’autorité de la maison-mère.
À noter que c’est désormais le restaurant le plus proche de Paris-Normandie - notre maison-mère -, à Déville.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.