mausolée

\mo.zɔ.le\

/\mo.zɔ.le\/ noun

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The verdict

“mausolée” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,043. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,043
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand et riche monument funéraire, qui contient le corps du mort, contrairement au cénotaphe, tombeau vide.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mausolee · mausolée · French

mausolée · rank #25,043 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #25,043
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Matthews

Nearest frequency peer: Matthews (-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 « mausolée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « mausolée » 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).

mausolée vs musclée
75% similar

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

Key facts for mausolée
PropertyValue
Headwordmausolée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mo.zɔ.le\
Letters8
Frequency rank#25,043
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mausolée »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mausoléese 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 « Matthews » (#25,042), « McCarthy » (#25,044), « mime » (#25,045). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mausolée » est au #25,043. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around mausolée (IPA \mo.zɔ.le\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,043 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grand et riche monument funéraire, qui contient le corps du mort, contrairement au cénotaphe, tombeau vide.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mausolée, with forms such as "amusolée", "masuolée", and "mauoslée". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "musclée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mausolée, spelled M-A-U-S-O-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grand et riche monument funéraire, qui contient le corps du mort, contrairement au cénotaphe, tombeau vide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette loi ne prive pas les familles de la consolation d’honorer la mémoire des défunts, en leur érigeant des mausolées dans ces temples.
  2. À Baby (Seine-et-Marne), il a été encore construit en 1743, c’est-à-dire à une date avancée du XVIIIᵉ siècle, un mausolée en forme de rotonde au chevet de l’église paroissiale pour abriter le tombeau d’Alexis-Jean Durand de Lagny.

This word in other languages

mausoleum(English)mausoleo(Español)Mausoleum(Deutsch)mausoléu(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amusolée
  • masuolée
  • mauoslée
  • mausloée
  • mausolee
  • mausoleé
  • mausollée
  • mausoéle
  • maussolée
  • mmausolée
  • muasolée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amusolée2masuolée2mauoslée2mausloée2mausolee1mausoleé2mausollée1mausoéle2
Edit distance from "mausolée"

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 "mausolée"?
"mausolée" is spelled M-A-U-S-O-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mo.zɔ.le\.
What does "mausolée" mean?
As a noun, "mausolée" means: Grand et riche monument funéraire, qui contient le corps du mort, contrairement au cénotaphe, tombeau vide.
What words are commonly confused with "mausolée"?
"mausolée" is commonly confused with "musclée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mausolée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mausolée" is \mo.zɔ.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mausolée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Matthews#25,042McCarthy#25,044mangeais#25,034octroyer#25,065

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

masqués11 variantsMarlène11 variantslivrant11 variantsobscurs11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list