mahatma
\ma.at.ma\
The verdict
“mahatma” is uncommon French (frequency #60,934 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,934
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initié, maître spirituel, titre honorifique de l'hindouisme et du théosophisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mahatma · mahatma · French
mahatma · rank #60,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,934
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maisonnettes
Nearest frequency peer: maisonnettes (+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 « mahatma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lombarde
lombarde
39,072 corpus weight
- lotions
lotions
39,071 corpus weight
- luttaient
luttaient
39,070 corpus weight
- mahatma
mahatma
39,067 corpus weight
- maisonnettes
maisonnettes
39,066 corpus weight
- majestueuses
majestueuses
39,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mahatma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahatma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.at.ma\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mahatma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mahatma is uncommon French at frequency #60,934 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.at.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initié, maître spirituel, titre honorifique de l'hindouisme et du théosophisme.".
mahatma has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mahatma, spelled M-A-H-A-T-M-A.
Definition
- 1Initié, maître spirituel, titre honorifique de l'hindouisme et du théosophisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mahatma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'un des champions du syncrétisme avait été le Mahatma Gandhi, qui ne sortait pas sans ses trois livres sacrés.
Celui-ci est menaçant dans la mesure où il est vu encore comme un homme et non pas comme un mahatma protégé par sa robe ocre de swâmi et sa longue barbe blanche.
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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