mam
The verdict
“mam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,610) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,610
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue maya parlée au Guatemala, dans les départements de Quetzaltenango, de San Marcos et de Huehuetenango.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mam · mam · French
mam · rank #34,610 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,610
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maltraiter
Nearest frequency peer: maltraiter (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mam »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- malheureuses
malheureuses
65,393 corpus weight
- maltraiter
maltraiter
65,392 corpus weight
- mam
mam
65,391 corpus weight
- mammifère
mammifère
65,390 corpus weight
- mangeons
mangeons
65,389 corpus weight
- mantra
mantra
65,388 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mam » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mam »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mam is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #34,610 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Langue maya parlée au Guatemala, dans les départements de Quetzaltenango, de San Marcos et de Huehuetenango.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mam, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mam, spelled M-A-M.
Definition
- 1Langue maya parlée au Guatemala, dans les départements de Quetzaltenango, de San Marcos et de Huehuetenango.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Mayas sont aujourd’hui les plus nombreux au Guatemala, où ils parlent une trentaine de langues, dont le quiché, le kekchi, le mam et la cakchiquel.
Je me suis à apprendre le mam, le cakchiquel et le tzutuhil. Trois langues que je me suis proposé d’apprendre, et en plus, je devais apprendre l’espagnol. Je ne le parlais pas bien. Qu’est-ce que je me trompais !
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); 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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).