maître de maison
\mɛtʁ də mɛ.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“maître de maison” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître des lieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maitre-de-maison · maître de maison · French
maître de maison · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | maître de maison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ də mɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maître de maison » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maître de maison is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛtʁ də mɛ.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
maître de maison doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maître de maison, spelled M-A-Î-T-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Maître des lieux.
- 2Celui qui dirige la maison, qui reçoit des visites ou des invités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maître de maison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il versa du vin au maître de maison et sur une brève indication de celui-ci, il remplit aussi la coupe de son hôte.
Ce que le maître de maison attend de moi, c’est de faire rire.
This word in other languages
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.