Mauriac
\mo.ʁjak\
The verdict
“Mauriac” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,902
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Cantal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauriac · Mauriac · French
Mauriac · rank #32,902 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,902
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Masséna
Nearest frequency peer: Masséna (-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 « Mauriac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maso
maso
67,102 corpus weight
- masseur
masseur
67,101 corpus weight
- Masséna
Masséna
67,100 corpus weight
- Mauriac
Mauriac
67,099 corpus weight
- Maurras
Maurras
67,098 corpus weight
- mazout
mazout
67,097 corpus weight
What this shows « Mauriac » 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 | Mauriac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mo.ʁjak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mauriac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Mauriac (IPA \mo.ʁjak\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,902 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mauriac, with forms such as "amuriac", "maruiac", and "mauirac". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Maurin", "Maurice", "Maurras", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mauriac, spelled M-A-U-R-I-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Cantal.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
- 3Hameau de la commune de Senouillac.
- 4Canton français, situé dans le département du Cantal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mauriac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chef-lieu d’une des quatre prévôtés de cette partie de la province, la dernière du côté du Limousin, Mauriac est situé à 18 lieues de Clermont, à 7 d’Aurillac, à une lieue et demie des bords de la Dordogne.
L'exploitation de M. Guy VINCENT (cheptel nᵒ 19110037), sise au lieu-dit «Le Braud», commune de LATRONCHE (19160) est placée sous la surveillance du Dr MONET Jacques, vétérinaire sanitaire à MAURIAC.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amuriac
- maruiac
- mauirac
- mauraic
- mauriacc
- maurica
- maurriac
- mmauriac
- muariac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mauriac - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).