maury

\mo.ʁi\

/\mo.ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“maury” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,521
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin doux naturel rouge d’appellation d’origine contrôlée produit autour de Maury, au nord-ouest de Perpignan dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maury · maury · French

maury · rank #27,521 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,521
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Maude

Nearest frequency peer: Maude (-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 « maury »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « maury » 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).

maury vs mur
60% similar
maury vs May
40% similar
maury vs muy
60% similar

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

Key facts for maury
PropertyValue
Headwordmaury
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mo.ʁi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#27,521
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maury »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mauryse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Maude » (#27,520), « maybe » (#27,522), « matérialisme » (#27,519). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maury » est au #27,521. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around maury (IPA \mo.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,521 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vin doux naturel rouge d’appellation d’origine contrôlée produit autour de Maury, au nord-ouest de Perpignan dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for maury, with forms such as "amury", "maruy", and "maurry". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mur", "May", "muy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maury, spelled M-A-U-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vin doux naturel rouge d’appellation d’origine contrôlée produit autour de Maury, au nord-ouest de Perpignan dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les maury sont mutés après départ en fermentation et élevés, comme les banyuls, en rimage (millésimés) ou en vins doux traditionnels.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amury
  • maruy
  • maurry
  • mauryy
  • mauyr
  • mmaury
  • muary

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amury2maruy2maurry1mauryy1mauyr2mmaury1muary2
Edit distance from "maury"

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 "maury"?
"maury" is spelled M-A-U-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \mo.ʁi\.
What does "maury" mean?
As a noun, "maury" means: Vin doux naturel rouge d’appellation d’origine contrôlée produit autour de Maury, au nord-ouest de Perpignan dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.
What words are commonly confused with "maury"?
"maury" is commonly confused with "mur", "May", "muy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maury"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maury" is \mo.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maury" come from?
"maury" 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 "maury", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list