Maoris
\ma.ɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“Maoris” is uncommon French (frequency #76,785 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,785
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuple autochtone de Nouvelle-Zélande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maoris · Maoris · French
Maoris · rank #76,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,785
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manticore
Nearest frequency peer: manticore (-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 « Maoris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maniérisme
maniérisme
23,220 corpus weight
- manticore
manticore
23,217 corpus weight
- Maoris
Maoris
23,216 corpus weight
- Marianna
Marianna
23,215 corpus weight
- maréchale
maréchale
23,214 corpus weight
- matching
matching
23,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maoris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maoris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maoris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maoris is uncommon French at frequency #76,785 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ɔ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Maoris, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Maoris, spelled M-A-O-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Peuple autochtone de Nouvelle-Zélande.
- 2Peuple autochtone des îles Cook.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maoris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’origine polynésienne, les Maoris représentent un peu plus de 14 % de la population de la Nouvelle-Zélande.
Peuple indigène d’Aotearoa (Nouvelle-Zélande), les Maoris ont leurs propres rites, leurs propres croyances.
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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