Saint-Maur
The verdict
“Saint-Maur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saint-Maur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Saint-Maur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Saint-Maur is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Saint-Maur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Saint-Maur, spelled S-A-I-N-T---M-A-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département du Cher.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Gers.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département de l’Indre.
- 5Commune française, située dans le département du Jura.
- 6Commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise.
- 7Nom abrégé de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, commune française, située dans le département du Val-de-Marne.
- 8Ancienne commune de Maine-et-Loire, aujourd'hui intégrée au Thoureil.
- 9Ancienne commune de Meurthe-et-Moselle, aujourd'hui intégrée à Lunéville
- 10Ancienne commune de l’ancien département d'Oran, aujourd'hui Tamzoura dans la wilaya d’Aïn Témouchent.
- 11Section de la commune de Tournai en Belgique.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Saint-Maur”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-I-N-T---M-A-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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