Mauges
\moʒ\
The verdict
“Mauges” is uncommon French (frequency #77,697 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,697
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région naturelle du sud-ouest du département de Maine-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauges · Mauges · French
Mauges · rank #77,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,697
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mayennais
Nearest frequency peer: mayennais (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Mauges »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Marseillan
Marseillan
22,309 corpus weight
- materia
materia
22,306 corpus weight
- Mauges
Mauges
22,304 corpus weight
- mayennais
mayennais
22,303 corpus weight
- Mayflower
Mayflower
22,302 corpus weight
- MCD
MCD
22,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mauges » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mauges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \moʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mauges » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mauges is uncommon French at frequency #77,697 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \moʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région naturelle du sud-ouest du département de Maine-et-Loire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mauges, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Mauges, spelled M-A-U-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Région naturelle du sud-ouest du département de Maine-et-Loire.
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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