maya
\ma.ja\
The verdict
“maya” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,616
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Mayas —peuple amérindien précolombien qui occupait le sud du Mexique et l’Amérique centrale (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua) entre le Iᵉ siècle avant J.-C. et le Xᵉ si...
Corpus desk
Index FR-maya · maya · French
maya · rank #11,616 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,616
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH martyrs
Nearest frequency peer: martyrs (-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 « maya »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Margaret
Margaret
88,387 corpus weight
- martyrs
martyrs
88,386 corpus weight
- maya
maya
88,385 corpus weight
- mentalement
mentalement
88,384 corpus weight
- menus
menus
88,383 corpus weight
- metteur
metteur
88,382 corpus weight
What this shows « maya » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | maya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maya »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around maya (IPA \ma.ja\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,616 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Mayas —peuple amérindien précolombien qui occupait le sud du Mexique et l’Amérique centrale (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua) entre le Iᵉ siècle avant J.-C. et le Xᵉ si...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for maya, with forms such as "amya", "maay", and "mayya". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mia", "MMA", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 maya, spelled M-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Mayas —peuple amérindien précolombien qui occupait le sud du Mexique et l’Amérique centrale (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua) entre le Iᵉ siècle avant J.-C. et le Xᵉ siècle de notre ère—, ainsi qu’à leurs descendants, à leur langue et à leur culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’histoire [du film Apocalypto] se résume à peu de chose près à la fuite du héros, un indigène des forêts humides capturé par des guerriers mayas, qui n’en finit plus d’échapper à ses féroces poursuivants. L’Empire maya est réduit à une imposante pyramide où se pratiquent des sacrifices humains et à la cruauté de ses trafiquants d’esclaves.
Au Chiapas, un tiers de la population est indigène, soit plus d’un million de personnes… À l’exception des Zoques, apparentés aux Popolucas et aux Mixes, on y trouve une majorité de groupes appartenant à la famille maya du Mexique : Tzotziles, Tzeltales, Choles, Tojolabales, Lacandones, Mames, Mochos, Kakchikeles, avec un total de douze groupes linguistiq…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amya
- maay
- mayya
- mmaya
- myaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maya - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).