Mayence

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Mayence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Mayence vs moyenne
57% similar
Mayence vs Mayenne
86% similar
Mayence vs mance
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Mayence
PropertyValue
HeadwordMayence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#21,077
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mayence »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Mayencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « marquera » (#21,076), « manipule » (#21,074), « mesurent » (#21,080). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Mayence » est au #21,077. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Rhénanie-Palatinat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Mayence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

amyence2maeynce2mayecne2mayencce1mayenec2mayennce1maynece2mayyence1
Edit distance from "Mayence"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Mayence"?
"Mayence" is spelled M-A-Y-E-N-C-E.
What does "Mayence" mean?
As a proper noun, "Mayence" means: Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, capitale de la Rhénanie-Palatinat.
What words are commonly confused with "Mayence"?
"Mayence" is commonly confused with "moyenne", "Mayenne", "mance". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Mayence" come from?
"Mayence" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mayence", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list