maverick
\ˈmæv.əɹ.ɪk\
The verdict
“maverick” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,448
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Franc-tireur : personne agissant hors des structures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maverick · maverick · French
maverick · rank #47,448 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,448
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maura
Nearest frequency peer: Maura (-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 « maverick »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marinière
marinière
52,556 corpus weight
- matrimonial…
matrimoniales
52,555 corpus weight
- Maura
Maura
52,554 corpus weight
- maverick
maverick
52,553 corpus weight
- Maël
Maël
52,552 corpus weight
- medley
medley
52,550 corpus weight
What this shows « maverick » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maverick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmæv.əɹ.ɪk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maverick »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around maverick (IPA \ˈmæv.əɹ.ɪk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,448 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for maverick, with forms such as "amverick", "maevrick", and "maveirck". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maverick, spelled M-A-V-E-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Franc-tireur : personne agissant hors des structures.
- 2Animal non marqué, surtout en parlant du bétail.
- 3Cheval isolé de son troupeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maverick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cheval sauvage est un animal grégaire qui vit en troupeau dirigé par un mâle dominant, et migre en groupe selon les ressources disponibles. Aux États-Unis, le nom de maverick est attribué aux chevaux semblant isolés d'un troupeau, mais qui, en fait, tout en restant à distance de celui-ci, en suivent la marche sans jamais s'en éloigner beaucoup. Ils fon…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amverick
- maevrick
- maveirck
- mavercik
- mavericck
- maverickk
- maverikc
- maverrick
- mavreick
- mavverick
- mmaverick
- mvaerick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maverick - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).