mayor

\ma.jɔʁ\

/\ma.jɔʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“mayor” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,458. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,458
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agent seigneurial détenteur d’une charge dont les attributions peuvent varier selon les régions et les époques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mayor · mayor · French

mayor · rank #42,458 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,458
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mayeur

Nearest frequency peer: mayeur (-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 « mayor »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « mayor » 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).

mayor vs Meyer
40% similar
mayor vs motor
60% similar
mayor vs minor
60% similar

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

Key facts for mayor
PropertyValue
Headwordmayor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.jɔʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#42,458
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mayor »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).mayorse 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 « mayeur » (#42,457), « maximes » (#42,456), « mesdemoiselles » (#42,460). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mayor » est au #42,458. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around mayor (IPA \ma.jɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,458 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Agent seigneurial détenteur d’une charge dont les attributions peuvent varier selon les régions et les époques.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mayor, with forms such as "amyor", "maoyr", and "mayorr". 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, "Meyer", "motor", "minor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mayor, spelled M-A-Y-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Agent seigneurial détenteur d’une charge dont les attributions peuvent varier selon les régions et les époques.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Le mayor (villicus ou villicus-major) était un économe chargé de régir l’exploitation rurale d’un domaine soit d’une ferme royale ou seigneuriale (proedium indominicatum).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amyor
  • maoyr
  • mayorr
  • mayro
  • mayyor
  • mmayor
  • myaor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mayor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amyor2maoyr2mayorr1mayro2mayyor1mmayor1myaor2
Edit distance from "mayor"

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 "mayor"?
"mayor" is spelled M-A-Y-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.jɔʁ\.
What does "mayor" mean?
As a noun, "mayor" means: Agent seigneurial détenteur d’une charge dont les attributions peuvent varier selon les régions et les époques.
What words are commonly confused with "mayor"?
"mayor" is commonly confused with "Meyer", "motor", "minor". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mayor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mayor" is \ma.jɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mayor" come from?
"mayor" 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 "mayor", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Marcq#42,452lubie#42,445Louie#42,442muter#42,475

Similar misspelling depth

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

least7 variantslaides7 variantsoffset7 variantsogres7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list