Mayen
\ma.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“Mayen” is uncommon French (frequency #84,056 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,056
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de May-sur-Orne, commune située dans le département du Calvados, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayen · Mayen · French
Mayen · rank #84,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,056
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matons
Nearest frequency peer: matons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Mayen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mast
mast
15,950 corpus weight
- Mather
Mather
15,948 corpus weight
- matons
matons
15,946 corpus weight
- Mayen
Mayen
15,945 corpus weight
- maîtrisons
maîtrisons
15,943 corpus weight
- Maïdan
Maïdan
15,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mayen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mayen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mayen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mayen is uncommon French at frequency #84,056 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de May-sur-Orne, commune située dans le département du Calvados, en France.".
Mayen has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mayen, spelled M-A-Y-E-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de May-sur-Orne, commune située dans le département du Calvados, en France.
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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