maudire

/\mo.diʁ\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#40,370

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

maudire is aFrenchverb. It means: Lancer des imprécations contre quelqu’un pour qu’il lui arrive du mal. Pronounced \mo.diʁ\. Often confused with maure and maudit.

Key facts for maudire
PropertyValue
Headwordmaudire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\mo.diʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#40,370
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of maudire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maudire is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mo.diʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #40,370 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for maudire, with forms such as "amudire", "maduire", and "mauddire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "maure", "maudit", "moudre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maudire, spelled M-A-U-D-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lancer des imprécations contre quelqu’un pour qu’il lui arrive du mal.
  2. 2
    Réprouver.
  3. 3
    Détester une chose, exprimer l’horreur qu’on en a.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amudire,maduire,mauddire,maudier,maudirre,maudrie,mauidre,mmaudire,muadire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maudire

Misspelling Variants of "maudire"

amudire7maduire7mauddire8maudier7maudirre8maudrie7mauidre7mmaudire8
Misspelling Variants of "maudire"

Frequency rank: #40,370 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maudire"?
"maudire" is spelled M-A-U-D-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mo.diʁ\.
What does "maudire" mean?
As a verb, "maudire" means: Lancer des imprécations contre quelqu’un pour qu’il lui arrive du mal.
What words are commonly confused with "maudire"?
"maudire" is commonly confused with "maure", "maudit", "moudre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maudire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maudire" is \mo.diʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maudire" come from?
"maudire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.