map
\mæp\
The verdict
“map” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,195) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,195
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carte (routière, d’un pays).
Corpus desk
Index FR-map · map · French
map · rank #12,195 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,195
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manœuvres
Nearest frequency peer: manœuvres (-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 « map »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Malte
Malte
87,809 corpus weight
- malédiction
malédiction
87,808 corpus weight
- manœuvres
manœuvres
87,807 corpus weight
- map
map
87,806 corpus weight
- masculins
masculins
87,805 corpus weight
- maternel
maternel
87,804 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « map » 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 | map |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mæp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « map »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for map is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mæp\. Frequency #12,195 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for map in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is map, spelled M-A-P.
Definition
- 1Carte (routière, d’un pays).
- 2Plan (d’une ville, d’un bâtiment).
- 3Application.
Synonyms
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).