Mayotte
\ma.jɔt\
The verdict
“Mayotte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,437
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île située dans l’océan Indien, dont la ville principale est Mamoudzou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayotte · Mayotte · French
Mayotte · rank #15,437 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,437
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mayenne
Nearest frequency peer: Mayenne (-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 « Mayotte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maquette
maquette
84,567 corpus weight
- marraine
marraine
84,566 corpus weight
- Mayenne
Mayenne
84,565 corpus weight
- Mayotte
Mayotte
84,564 corpus weight
- maçon
maçon
84,563 corpus weight
- membrane
membrane
84,562 corpus weight
What this shows « Mayotte » 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 | Mayotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mayotte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Mayotte (IPA \ma.jɔt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,437 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Île située dans l’océan Indien, dont la ville principale est Mamoudzou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mayotte, with forms such as "amyotte", "maoytte", and "mayote". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Motte", "manette", "mascotte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mayotte, spelled M-A-Y-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Île située dans l’océan Indien, dont la ville principale est Mamoudzou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mayotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’auteur rédige un plaidoyer saisissant pour Mayotte, terre d’Histoire, de mémoires et d’hospitalité naviguant entre cultures africaines, arabes, malgaches et appartenance à la France.
Le shindzuani ou anjouanais est une langue parlée dans l’île de Ndzuani ou Anjouan, aux Comores. L’ensemble des parlers de l’archipel constitue le comorien. Dans cet ensemble, le shindzuani forme, avec le parler de Mayotte, la branche orientale.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amyotte
- maoytte
- mayote
- mayotet
- maytote
- mayyotte
- mmayotte
- myaotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mayotte - 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.
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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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).