maxime
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,366
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maxime is aFrenchnoun. It means: Proposition générale qui sert de principe, de fondement, de règle dans un art, dans une science, et particulièrement en matière de politique et de morale. Par exemple, Trajan disait « ces maximes d... Pronounced \mak.sim\. It ranks #5,366 in French word frequency. Often confused with mime and minime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maxime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mak.sim\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maxime is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mak.sim\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,366 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for maxime, with forms such as "amxime", "maixme", and "maxiem". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mime", "minime", "mixité", 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 maxime, spelled M-A-X-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proposition générale qui sert de principe, de fondement, de règle dans un art, dans une science, et particulièrement en matière de politique et de morale. Par exemple, Trajan disait « ces maximes de Zalmoxis » en parlant avec admiration à propos des enseignements du chef spirituel des Daces.
- 2Recueil de pensées.
- 3Figure de note dont la valeur est égale à deux longues.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amxime,maixme,maxiem,maximme,maxmie,maxxime,mmaxime,mxaime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maxime
Misspelling Variants of "maxime"
Frequency rank: #5,366 in French
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