Maryland

\ma.ʁi.lɑ̃d\

/\ma.ʁi.lɑ̃d\/ name

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The verdict

“Maryland” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,936
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État du côte de l’est des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MD), bordé par la Pennsylvanie au nord, le Delaware à l’est, l’océan Atlantique au sud-est, la Virginie et le district de Columbia au su...

Corpus desk

Index FR-maryland · Maryland · French

Maryland · rank #22,936 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #22,936
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Marley

Nearest frequency peer: Marley (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maryland »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Maryland » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Maryland vs marchand
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Maryland
PropertyValue
HeadwordMaryland
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ma.ʁi.lɑ̃d\
Letters8
Frequency rank#22,936
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maryland »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Marylandse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Marley » (#22,935), « marginaux » (#22,934), « Maud » (#22,938). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Maryland » est au #22,936. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around Maryland (IPA \ma.ʁi.lɑ̃d\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,936 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maryland, with forms such as "amryland", "marlyand", and "marryland". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "marchand", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Maryland, spelled M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    État du côte de l’est des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MD), bordé par la Pennsylvanie au nord, le Delaware à l’est, l’océan Atlantique au sud-est, la Virginie et le district de Columbia au sud-ouest, et la Virginie-Occidentale à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Annapolis.
  2. 2
    Village du Pays de Galles situé dans le Monmouthshire.
  3. 3
    Comté du Liberia.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Maryland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’ai déjà mentionné mon nom, Benjamin O. Lesage. Malgré la consonance française, héritage d’un aïeul huguenot émigré au siècle de Louis XIV, je suis citoyen américain, natif d’Annapolis, dans le Maryland, sur la baie de Chesapeake, modeste bras de l’Atlantique.
  2. C’est ainsi, et c’est un comble, que le discours œnologiquement correct qui s’est imposé au pays de Rabelais, de Molière et de Gentil-Bernard est inspiré par la prose gluante de Robert Paker, le gourou du Maryland amateur d’arômes de ketchup et de senteurs de boite à épices.

This word in other languages

Maryland(English)Maryland(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amryland
  • marlyand
  • marryland
  • maryalnd
  • maryladn
  • marylandd
  • marylannd
  • marylland
  • marylnad
  • maryyland
  • mayrland
  • mmaryland
  • mrayland

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maryland - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amryland2marlyand2marryland1maryalnd2maryladn2marylandd1marylannd1marylland1
Edit distance from "Maryland"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Maryland"?
"Maryland" is spelled M-A-R-Y-L-A-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁi.lɑ̃d\.
What does "Maryland" mean?
As a proper noun, "Maryland" means: État du côte de l’est des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal MD), bordé par la Pennsylvanie au nord, le Delaware à l’est, l’océan Atlantique au sud-est, la Virginie et le district de Columbia au su...
What words are commonly confused with "Maryland"?
"Maryland" is commonly confused with "marchand". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Maryland"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Maryland" is \ma.ʁi.lɑ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Maryland" come from?
"Maryland" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maryland", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Mohammad#22,944nourrice#22,955palpable#22,961parfaire#22,962

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

marginaux13 variantsislandais13 variantspartisane13 variantsinsolence13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list