maxillaire
\mak.si.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“maxillaire” is uncommon French (frequency #52,191 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,191
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient aux mâchoires, relatif aux mâchoires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maxillaire · maxillaire · French
maxillaire · rank #52,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,191
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH masquées
Nearest frequency peer: masquées (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maxillaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marginalisé
marginalisé
47,813 corpus weight
- Maroni
Maroni
47,812 corpus weight
- masquées
masquées
47,811 corpus weight
- maxillaire
maxillaire
47,810 corpus weight
- merce
merce
47,808 corpus weight
- merleau
merleau
47,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maxillaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maxillaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mak.si.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maxillaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maxillaire is uncommon French at frequency #52,191 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mak.si.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
maxillaire has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is maxillaire, spelled M-A-X-I-L-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient aux mâchoires, relatif aux mâchoires.
- 2Relatif à la mâchoire supérieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maxillaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muscles, nerfs, artères, glandes maxillaires.
Elles [les douleurs] sont continues, à périodes régulières ou irrégulières ; on a établi les espèces suivantes : 1°. névralgie frontale ; 2°. névralgie sous-orbitaire ; 3°. névralgie maxillaire ; 4°. névralgie ilioscrotale ; 5°. névralgie fémoro-poplitée ; 6°. névralgie fémoro-prétibiale ; 7°. névralgie plantaire ; 8°. névralgie cubito-digitale ; 9°. névr…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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