mas
\mas\
The verdict
“mas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,694) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,694
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ferme dans le midi de la France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mas · mas · French
mas · rank #9,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marcus
Nearest frequency peer: Marcus (-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 « mas »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- manifestent
manifestent
90,309 corpus weight
- Marcus
Marcus
90,308 corpus weight
- mas
mas
90,307 corpus weight
- maternité
maternité
90,306 corpus weight
- mexicain
mexicain
90,305 corpus weight
- modem
modem
90,304 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mas » 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 | mas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mas\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mas »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mas is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mas\. Frequency #9,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Ferme dans le midi de la France.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mas, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mas, spelled M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Ferme dans le midi de la France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1946, au village de Canet, en Roussillon, les Espagnols représentaient 6 % de la population ; dans les 9 mas de la commune, par contre, ils formaient 40 % de la population.
Cette éminence rocheuse a été créée par le creusement de la voie ferrée et permet d’observer, comme une tranche de gâteau, la couche rocheuse surmontée de terre traversée par des sarcophages, eux-mêmes surmontés d’un mas et d’une chapelle romane !
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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