maxima

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,438

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

maxima is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de maximum. Often confused with maxime and minima.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of maxima in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maxima is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #29,438 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de maximum.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for maxima, with forms such as "amxima", "maixma", and "maxiam". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "maxime", "minima", "maximum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maxima, spelled M-A-X-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de maximum.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amxima,maixma,maxiam,maximma,maxmia,maxxima,mmaxima,mxaima

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maxima

Misspelling Variants of "maxima"

amxima6maixma6maxiam6maximma7maxmia6maxxima7mmaxima7mxaima6
Misspelling Variants of "maxima"

Frequency rank: #29,438 in French

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.