maboule
\ma.bul\
The verdict
“maboule” is uncommon French (frequency #93,991 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,991
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de maboul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maboule · maboule · French
maboule · rank #93,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,991
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH magnétoscopes
Nearest frequency peer: magnétoscopes (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “maboule”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- léchait
léchait
6,014 corpus weight
- maboule
maboule
6,010 corpus weight
- magnétoscop…
magnétoscopes
6,008 corpus weight
- magots
magots
6,007 corpus weight
- magus
magus
6,006 corpus weight
- mair
mair
6,005 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “maboule” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maboule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.bul\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maboule” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
maboule is uncommon French at frequency #93,991 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.bul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de maboul.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maboule in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is maboule, spelled M-A-B-O-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de maboul.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.