maure

\mɔʁ\

/\mɔʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“maure” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,856
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les Maures ou leur culture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maure · maure · French

maure · rank #29,856 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,856
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mats

Nearest frequency peer: mats (-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 « maure »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maure vs mur
60% similar
maure vs mue
60% similar
maure vs Mère
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maure
PropertyValue
Headwordmaure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mɔʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#29,856
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maure »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.maurese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mats » (#29,855), « mean » (#29,857), « marquante » (#29,854). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maure » est au #29,856. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around maure (IPA \mɔʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,856 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui concerne les Maures ou leur culture.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for maure, with forms such as "amure", "marue", and "mauer". 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, "mur", "mue", "Mère", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maure, spelled M-A-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne les Maures ou leur culture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how maure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sous la tente maure, une petite loge de tissus isole parfois la couche conjugale, tandis que sous la tente bédouine , une cloison de roseau circonscrit le horma (pluriel : harem), l'espace intime réservé à une épouse et à ses jeunes enfants.

Synonyms

mauresque

This word in other languages

moorish(English)moro(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amure
  • marue
  • mauer
  • maurre
  • mmaure
  • muare

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maure - 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.

amure2marue2mauer2maurre1mmaure1muare2
Edit distance from "maure"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maure"?
"maure" is spelled M-A-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔʁ\.
What does "maure" mean?
As an adjective, "maure" means: Qui concerne les Maures ou leur culture.
What words are commonly confused with "maure"?
"maure" is commonly confused with "mur", "mue", "Mère". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maure" is \mɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maure" come from?
"maure" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maure", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

meule#29,861lagon#29,840nocif#29,883odéon#29,888

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

mats6 variantsLomé6 variantslionne6 variantsKind6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list