maybe
[ˈmeɪ.bi]
The verdict
“maybe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,522
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peut-être, peut-être que, il se peut que.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maybe · maybe · French
maybe · rank #27,522 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,522
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maury
Nearest frequency peer: maury (-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 « maybe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- matérialisme
matérialisme
72,482 corpus weight
- Maude
Maude
72,481 corpus weight
- maury
maury
72,480 corpus weight
- maybe
maybe
72,479 corpus weight
- maîtrisent
maîtrisent
72,478 corpus weight
- meta
meta
72,476 corpus weight
What this shows « maybe » 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 | maybe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈmeɪ.bi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maybe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around maybe (IPA [ˈmeɪ.bi]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #27,522 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Peut-être, peut-être que, il se peut que.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for maybe, with forms such as "amybe", "mabye", and "maybbe". 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, "mayo", "maze", "Mayer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maybe, spelled M-A-Y-B-E.
Definition
- 1Peut-être, peut-être que, il se peut que.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amybe
- mabye
- maybbe
- mayeb
- mayybe
- mmaybe
- myabe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maybe - 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).