maternelles
\ma.tɛʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“maternelles” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,070
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de maternel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maternelles · maternelles · French
maternelles · rank #19,070 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,070
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massacrés
Nearest frequency peer: massacrés (-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 « maternelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marquants
marquants
80,933 corpus weight
- massacrés
massacrés
80,932 corpus weight
- maternelles
maternelles
80,931 corpus weight
- mitigé
mitigé
80,930 corpus weight
- MMA
MMA
80,929 corpus weight
- métallurgie
métallurgie
80,928 corpus weight
What this shows « maternelles » 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 | maternelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.tɛʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #19,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maternelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around maternelles (IPA \ma.tɛʁ.nɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,070 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de maternel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for maternelles, with forms such as "amternelles", "maetrnelles", and "matenrelles". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "maternels", "maternelle", "matérielle", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maternelles, spelled M-A-T-E-R-N-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de maternel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maternelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’occupa de moi, il m’appelait son petit, il me prêta l’argent nécessaire à mes achats de livres, il venait quelquefois tout doucement me voir travaillant ; enfin il prit des précautions maternelles pour que je substituasse à la nourriture insuffisante et mauvaise à laquelle j’étais condamné, une nourriture saine et abondante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amternelles
- maetrnelles
- matenrelles
- materenlles
- maternelels
- materneles
- maternelless
- maternellse
- maternleles
- maternnelles
- materrnelles
- matrenelles
- matternelles
- mmaternelles
- mtaernelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maternelles - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).