maistre
The verdict
“maistre” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #32,062 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #32,062
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maître.
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 | maistre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maistre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maistre is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #32,062 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Maître.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maistre, with forms such as "amistre", "maisrte", and "maisstre". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "maître", "misère", "mestre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maistre, spelled M-A-I-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Maître.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amistre,maisrte,maisstre,maister,maistrre,maisttre,maitsre,masitre,miastre,mmaistre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maistre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “maistre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-S-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “maître” - see the side-by-side comparison. maistre vs maître
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.