Mayence
The verdict
“Mayence” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,077
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Rhénanie-Palatinat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayence · Mayence · French
Mayence · rank #21,077 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,077
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marquera
Nearest frequency peer: marquera (-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 « Mayence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maduro
maduro
78,928 corpus weight
- manipule
manipule
78,927 corpus weight
- marquera
marquera
78,925 corpus weight
- Mayence
Mayence
78,924 corpus weight
- mesurent
mesurent
78,921 corpus weight
- Michaud
Michaud
78,920 corpus weight
What this shows « Mayence » 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 | Mayence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mayence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Mayence, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,077 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Rhénanie-Palatinat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mayence, with forms such as "amyence", "maeynce", and "mayecne". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "moyenne", "Mayenne", "mance", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mayence, spelled M-A-Y-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Rhénanie-Palatinat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mayence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussitôt après mon arrivée à Mayence, j'allai rendre visite à M. de Stein l'aîné, chambellan et grand maître des eaux et forêts du roi de Prusse.
Le Mein se jette dans le Rhin presque en face de Mainz, que nous appelons Mayence, par suite de ce système absurde de traduction des noms qu’on devrait bien abandonner. — Cependant jambon de Mainz ferait un singulier effet ! — C’est toujours un beau spectacle que la rencontre de deux grands cours d’eau dont l’un absorbe l’autre et l’entraîne à la mer en l…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amyence
- maeynce
- mayecne
- mayencce
- mayenec
- mayennce
- maynece
- mayyence
- mmayence
- myaence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mayence - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).