maistre
The verdict
“maistre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,062
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maistre · maistre · French
maistre · rank #32,062 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,062
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maillet
Nearest frequency peer: maillet (-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 « maistre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lukas
Lukas
67,942 corpus weight
- magenta
magenta
67,941 corpus weight
- maillet
maillet
67,940 corpus weight
- maistre
maistre
67,939 corpus weight
- malformation
malformation
67,938 corpus weight
- manchot
manchot
67,937 corpus weight
What this shows « maistre » 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 | maistre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maistre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maistre, anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,062 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maistre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
la translacion maistre Geffrei Gaimar
On ne doit pas hair son maistre
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maistre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).