maso
The verdict
“maso” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,899) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,899
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masochiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maso · maso · French
maso · rank #32,899 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,899
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH martinet
Nearest frequency peer: martinet (-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 « maso »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Martigues
Martigues
67,104 corpus weight
- martinet
martinet
67,103 corpus weight
- maso
maso
67,102 corpus weight
- masseur
masseur
67,101 corpus weight
- Masséna
Masséna
67,100 corpus weight
- Mauriac
Mauriac
67,099 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « maso » 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 | maso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « maso »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for maso is neighbouring look-alikes ("ms", "Mo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #32,899 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Masochiste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for maso, with forms such as "masso", "mmaso", and "msao". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ms", "Mo", "mes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maso, spelled M-A-S-O.
Definition
- 1Masochiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est maso, ce mec.
« Tu faisais les choses avec naturel, ni réticente ni vicelarde, juste de temps en temps un tout petit peu maso… »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- masso
- mmaso
- msao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maso - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maso", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).