Meister
The verdict
“Meister” is uncommon French (frequency #59,440 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,440
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître, homme qui dispose de l'autorité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meister · Meister · French
Meister · rank #59,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,440
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH memoria
Nearest frequency peer: memoria (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Meister »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- McLeod
McLeod
40,563 corpus weight
- Meister
Meister
40,561 corpus weight
- memoria
memoria
40,560 corpus weight
- merc
merc
40,559 corpus weight
- mesme
mesme
40,558 corpus weight
- Messins
Messins
40,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Meister » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Meister » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Meister is uncommon French at frequency #59,440 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maître, homme qui dispose de l'autorité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Meister, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Meister, spelled M-E-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Maître, homme qui dispose de l'autorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Meister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque fois qu’il prononçait devant moi le nom d’un SS de Chelmno, il le faisait précéder du qualificatif de Meister, qui signifie « maître ». Il me sembla qu’il était resté, à plus de quarante ans, l’enfant terrorisé qu’il avait dû être là-bas.
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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