maxima

noun

The verdict

“maxima” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,438
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maximum.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maxima · maxima · French

maxima · rank #29,438 · 8 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,438
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Maxim

Nearest frequency peer: Maxim (-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 « maxima »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « maxima » 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).

maxima vs maxime
83% similar
maxima vs minima
67% similar
maxima vs maximum
71% similar

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

Key facts for maxima
PropertyValue
Headwordmaxima
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#29,438
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maxima »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).maximase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Maxim » (#29,437), « mazarin » (#29,439), « martins » (#29,436). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maxima » est au #29,438. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around maxima, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,438 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de maximum.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for maxima, with forms such as "amxima", "maixma", and "maxiam". 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 also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "maxime", "minima", "maximum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maxima, spelled M-A-X-I-M-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de maximum.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amxima
  • maixma
  • maxiam
  • maximma
  • maxmia
  • maxxima
  • mmaxima
  • mxaima

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amxima2maixma2maxiam2maximma1maxmia2maxxima1mmaxima1mxaima2
Edit distance from "maxima"

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 "maxima"?
"maxima" is spelled M-A-X-I-M-A.
What does "maxima" mean?
As a noun, "maxima" means: Pluriel de maximum.
What words are commonly confused with "maxima"?
"maxima" is commonly confused with "maxime", "minima", "maximum". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "maxima" come from?
"maxima" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list