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“magistère” and “maistre” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #42,998
- “magistère” frequency rank
- #32,062
- “maistre” frequency rank
- 75060
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | magistère | maistre |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Dignité du grand maître d’un ordre militaire et plus particulièrement de l’ordre de Malte. | Maître. |
Letter map: magistère vs maistre
Shared letters muted; letters that set magistère and maistre apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. magistère runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVCV) against maistre's 7 (CVVCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Pair insight - magistère / maistre
magistère and maistre are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75060, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
magistère is recorded at frequency rank #42,998, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʒis.tɛʁ\. maistre is at rank #32,062, tagged as anoun.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 75060, this pair ranks #35,245 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of magistère vs maistre
Shared letters: aeimrst. Private to "magistère": gè. Private to "maistre": -.
"magistère" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV · "maistre" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- maistre ← amistre · maisrte · maisstre · maister · maistrre · maisttre · maitsre · masitre
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "magistère" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maistre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #35,245 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "magistère" and "maistre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "magister vs magistère". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #35,245 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.