magnificat
\maɡ.ni.fi.kat\
The verdict
“magnificat” is uncommon French (frequency #70,808 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,808
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cantique de la Vierge, qu’on chante à vêpres et au salut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magnificat · magnificat · French
magnificat · rank #70,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,808
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mady
Nearest frequency peer: Mady (-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 « magnificat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- léontine
léontine
29,196 corpus weight
- Mady
Mady
29,194 corpus weight
- magnificat
magnificat
29,193 corpus weight
- magnésie
magnésie
29,192 corpus weight
- majestés
majestés
29,191 corpus weight
- maltraitées
maltraitées
29,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magnificat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magnificat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maɡ.ni.fi.kat\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magnificat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magnificat is uncommon French at frequency #70,808 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maɡ.ni.fi.kat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cantique de la Vierge, qu’on chante à vêpres et au salut.".
Zero misspellings are on record for magnificat in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is magnificat, spelled M-A-G-N-I-F-I-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Cantique de la Vierge, qu’on chante à vêpres et au salut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how magnificat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entonner le magnificat.
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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