maître de cérémonie
\mɛtʁ də se.ʁe.mɔ.ni\
The verdict
“maître de cérémonie” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui officie lors de célébrations, cérémonies, assurant les intermèdes et présentant les invités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maître de cérémonie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ də se.ʁe.mɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maître de cérémonie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maître de cérémonie is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ də se.ʁe.mɔ.ni\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne qui officie lors de célébrations, cérémonies, assurant les intermèdes et présentant les invités.".
maître de cérémonie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is maître de cérémonie, spelled M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-É-R-É-M-O-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui officie lors de célébrations, cérémonies, assurant les intermèdes et présentant les invités.
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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.
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Using “maître de cérémonie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -C-É-R-É-M-O-N-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛtʁ də se.ʁe.mɔ.ni\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.