Maizières
\mɛ.zjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Maizières” is uncommon French (frequency #91,907 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,907
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maizieres · Maizières · French
Maizières · rank #91,907 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,907
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maitreya
Nearest frequency peer: Maitreya (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Maizières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macula
macula
8,098 corpus weight
- Magdala
Magdala
8,096 corpus weight
- Maitreya
Maitreya
8,095 corpus weight
- Maizières
Maizières
8,094 corpus weight
- malchanceuse
malchanceuse
8,092 corpus weight
- malingre
malingre
8,090 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maizières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maizières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.zjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maizières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maizières is uncommon French at frequency #91,907 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛ.zjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Maizières in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Maizières, spelled M-A-I-Z-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
- 5Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Saône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maizières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je viens de Maizières.
Je me rends à Maizières.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).