Mayas
\ma.ja\
The verdict
“Mayas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,595
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuple amérindien précolombien qui occupait le Sud du Mexique et l’Amérique centrale (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua) entre le Iᵉʳ siècle avant J.-C. et le Xᵉ siècle de notre ère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayas · Mayas · French
Mayas · rank #35,595 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,595
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mauves
Nearest frequency peer: mauves (-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 « Mayas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Marlon
Marlon
64,410 corpus weight
- mateo
mateo
64,409 corpus weight
- mauves
mauves
64,407 corpus weight
- Mayas
Mayas
64,406 corpus weight
- memory
memory
64,405 corpus weight
- might
might
64,402 corpus weight
What this shows « Mayas » 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 | Mayas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mayas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Mayas (IPA \ma.ja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,595 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Peuple amérindien précolombien qui occupait le Sud du Mexique et l’Amérique centrale (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua) entre le Iᵉʳ siècle avant J.-C. et le Xᵉ siècle de notre ère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mayas, with forms such as "amyas", "maays", and "mayass". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mayo", "moya", "Mayer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Mayas, spelled M-A-Y-A-S.
Definition
- 1Peuple amérindien précolombien qui occupait le Sud du Mexique et l’Amérique centrale (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua) entre le Iᵉʳ siècle avant J.-C. et le Xᵉ siècle de notre ère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mayas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tradition cinq fois centenaire : le Chiapas tire son nom d’une tribu d’irréductibles Mayas qui n’acceptèrent jamais la domination espagnole. Ils résistèrent plusieurs années avant de comprendre qu’ils ne pouvaient rien contre les armes à feu. Alors, dit la légende, refusant de devenir esclaves, les Chiapas se suicidèrent : 15 000 hommes, femmes et enfants…
Et même s’ils étaient en déclin avancé au moment de la conquête espagnole, période ici mise en scène, les Mayas constituaient une société complexe, qui méritait largement de recevoir au XXIᵉ siècle un tribut cinématographique à la hauteur de sa grandeur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amyas
- maays
- mayass
- maysa
- mayyas
- mmayas
- myaas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mayas - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).