mascarade
\mas.ka.ʁad\
The verdict
“mascarade” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,785. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,785
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Déguisement d’une personne qui se masque pour quelque divertissement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mascarade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mas.ka.ʁad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mascarade” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around mascarade (IPA \mas.ka.ʁad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,785 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for mascarade, with forms such as "amscarade", "macsarade", and "masacrade". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mascarade, spelled M-A-S-C-A-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Déguisement d’une personne qui se masque pour quelque divertissement.
- 2Simulacre de quelque chose.
- 3Troupe de gens déguisés et masqués.
- 4Chanson composée pour les comédies-ballets où l’on dansait sous le masque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amscarade
- macsarade
- masacrade
- mascaarde
- mascaradde
- mascaraed
- mascardae
- mascarrade
- masccarade
- mascraade
- masscarade
- mmascarade
- msacarade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mascarade - 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.
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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Using “mascarade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-S-C-A-R-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mas.ka.ʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.