mason
\ˈmeɪ.sən\
The verdict
“mason” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,730
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mason · mason · French
mason · rank #14,730 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,730
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marxiste
Nearest frequency peer: marxiste (-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 « mason »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- martel
martel
85,273 corpus weight
- marxiste
marxiste
85,272 corpus weight
- mason
mason
85,271 corpus weight
- matos
matos
85,270 corpus weight
- matérielles
matérielles
85,269 corpus weight
- med
med
85,268 corpus weight
What this shows « mason » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mason |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmeɪ.sən\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mason »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around mason (IPA \ˈmeɪ.sən\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,730 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mason, with forms such as "amson", "maosn", and "masno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mon", "Moon", "mass", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mason, spelled M-A-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Maçon.
- 2Franc-maçon.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amson
- maosn
- masno
- masonn
- mmason
- msaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mason - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).