Maurras
\mo.ʁas\
The verdict
“Maurras” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,903
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille surtout connu comme celui de Charles Maurras.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maurras · Maurras · French
Maurras · rank #32,903 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,903
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mauriac
Nearest frequency peer: Mauriac (-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 « Maurras »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- maîtrises
maîtrises
67,096 corpus weight
What this shows « Maurras » 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 | Maurras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mo.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Maurras »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Maurras (IPA \mo.ʁas\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,903 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille surtout connu comme celui de Charles Maurras.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maurras, with forms such as "amurras", "maruras", and "maurars". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Murray", "mourra", "mourrai", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Maurras, spelled M-A-U-R-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille surtout connu comme celui de Charles Maurras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maurras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Presque chacun de ses professeurs y aura laissé sa trace dans l’histoire de la culture, voire même dans l’histoire politique, l’un, par exemple, en devenant dirigeant national de la Résistance pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’autre en devenant Président de la République, parce qu’il n’avait pas fait de résistance et vous en grabouillant vos notes, li…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amurras
- maruras
- maurars
- mauras
- maurrass
- maurrsa
- mmaurras
- muarras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maurras - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).