maussade
\mo.sad\
The verdict
“maussade” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,623. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,623
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’humeur chagrine ; sombre ; ombrageux ; morose ; renfrogné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maussade · maussade · French
maussade · rank #34,623 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,623
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mensualités
Nearest frequency peer: mensualités (+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 « maussade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marrants
marrants
65,382 corpus weight
- martiens
martiens
65,381 corpus weight
- maternels
maternels
65,380 corpus weight
- maussade
maussade
65,378 corpus weight
- mensualités
mensualités
65,377 corpus weight
- mettes
mettes
65,375 corpus weight
What this shows « maussade » 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 | maussade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mo.sad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maussade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around maussade (IPA \mo.sad\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,623 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 maussade, with forms such as "amussade", "masusade", and "mausade". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "muscade", "Mossad", "massage", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is maussade, spelled M-A-U-S-S-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1D’humeur chagrine ; sombre ; ombrageux ; morose ; renfrogné.
- 2Qui cause du mécontentement ou de l’ennui.
- 3Qui désigne un temps, une météo pas très agréable, peu ensoleillé.
- 4Qui est terne, triste et gris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maussade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On le jugea maussade et insignifiant, ce pâle blond aux yeux bleus, dont le regard semblait tourné en dedans.
Lorsque le hasard les forçait de se trouver ensemble, il devenait taciturne, maussade, ne répondait qu’avec difficulté aux questions qu’elle lui adressait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amussade
- masusade
- mausade
- mausasde
- maussadde
- maussaed
- maussdae
- mmaussade
- muassade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maussade - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maussade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).