MMA
\ɛm.ɛm.a\
The verdict
“MMA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,072) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,072
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Arts martiaux mixtes », combat libre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mma · MMA · French
MMA · rank #19,072 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,072
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitigé
Nearest frequency peer: mitigé (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « MMA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- massacrés
massacrés
80,932 corpus weight
- maternelles
maternelles
80,931 corpus weight
- mitigé
mitigé
80,930 corpus weight
- MMA
MMA
80,929 corpus weight
- métallurgie
métallurgie
80,928 corpus weight
- méthane
méthane
80,927 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MMA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | MMA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.ɛm.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MMA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MMA is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "my", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛm.ɛm.a\. Frequency #19,072 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "« Arts martiaux mixtes », combat libre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for MMA, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is MMA, spelled M-M-A.
Definition
- 1« Arts martiaux mixtes », combat libre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MMA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les arts martiaux mixtes (MMA) entrent de plain-pied dans le monde des NFT, avec ce jeu de cartes à collectionner.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).