Mayer

name

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The verdict

“Mayer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,936
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mayer · Mayer · French

Mayer · rank #15,936 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,936
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Masson

Nearest frequency peer: Masson (-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 « Mayer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Mayer » 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).

Mayer vs mer
40% similar
Mayer vs mayo
40% similar
Mayer vs maze
40% similar

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

Key facts for Mayer
PropertyValue
HeadwordMayer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,936
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mayer »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Mayerse 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 « Masson » (#15,935), « menacées » (#15,937), « massacrer » (#15,934). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Mayer » est au #15,936. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Mayer, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,936 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mayer, with forms such as "amyer", "maeyr", and "mayerr". 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, "mer", "mayo", "maze", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Mayer, spelled M-A-Y-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Olivier Faure, le sortant, affronte Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, maire de Rouen (Seine-Maritime).

This word in other languages

Mayer(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amyer
  • maeyr
  • mayerr
  • mayre
  • mayyer
  • mmayer
  • myaer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mayer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amyer2maeyr2mayerr1mayre2mayyer1mmayer1myaer2
Edit distance from "Mayer"

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 "Mayer"?
"Mayer" is spelled M-A-Y-E-R.
What does "Mayer" mean?
As a proper noun, "Mayer" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Mayer"?
"Mayer" is commonly confused with "mer", "mayo", "maze". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Mayer" come from?
"Mayer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

miser#15,941opter#15,952panda#15,955gérés#15,898

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

ratée7 variantsruche7 variantssalir7 variantsDuval7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list