max
\maks\
The verdict
“max” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,704) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,704
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maximum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-max · max · French
max · rank #1,704 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,704
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH humaine
Nearest frequency peer: humaine (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « max »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- employés
employés
98,300 corpus weight
- examen
examen
98,299 corpus weight
- humaine
humaine
98,298 corpus weight
- max
max
98,297 corpus weight
- moteur
moteur
98,296 corpus weight
- officiel
officiel
98,295 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « max » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | max |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « max »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for max is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \maks\. Frequency #1,704 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Maximum.".
No misspelling variants are generated for max in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is max, spelled M-A-X.
Definition
- 1Maximum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how max appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle allait retirer un max de cette histoire, pour sûr.
Il vous reste une seule nuit où tout peut arriver, alors on va se lâcher un max.
Synonyms
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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