mafioso
\ma.fjo.zo\
The verdict
“mafioso” is uncommon French (frequency #73,326 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,326
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre de la mafia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mafioso · mafioso · French
mafioso · rank #73,326 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,326
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magistrales
Nearest frequency peer: magistrales (+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 « mafioso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- machistes
machistes
26,679 corpus weight
- mafioso
mafioso
26,675 corpus weight
- magistrales
magistrales
26,674 corpus weight
- Maguelone
Maguelone
26,673 corpus weight
- makis
makis
26,671 corpus weight
- malachite
malachite
26,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mafioso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mafioso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.fjo.zo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mafioso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mafioso is uncommon French at frequency #73,326 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.fjo.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Membre de la mafia.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mafioso, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 mafioso, spelled M-A-F-I-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1Membre de la mafia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mafioso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La peau d'un mafioso… Je suis ce mafioso. Ils sont des centaines à vouloir ma mort, à travers la Sicile et, si je parviens à quitter cette île de malheur, à travers le monde.
Certains ajoutent que la « super prison » de Palmi, où sont enfermés actuellement les terroristes des Brigades rouges et certains mafiosi, aurait été construite avec l’accord de la mafia.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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