mahorais

\ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\

/\ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\/ adj

The verdict

“mahorais” is uncommon French (frequency #67,680 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,680
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Mayotte et à ses habitants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mahorais · mahorais · French

mahorais · rank #67,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,680
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maestria

Nearest frequency peer: maestria (-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 « mahorais »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mahorais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mahorais
PropertyValue
Headwordmahorais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#67,680
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mahorais » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mahoraistombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « maestria » (#67,679), « malaisé » (#67,681), « macias » (#67,678). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mahorais » est au #67,680. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mahorais is uncommon French at frequency #67,680 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à Mayotte et à ses habitants.".

No misspelling variants are generated for mahorais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mahorais, spelled M-A-H-O-R-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à Mayotte et à ses habitants.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mahorais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des « collectifs citoyens » mahorais se sont associés au mouvement en appelant la population à se rassembler à Mamoudzou, le chef-lieu du département, où quelque 200 personnes ont manifesté, arborant des salouvas, le pagne traditionnel, aux couleurs de Mayotte.
  2. Elle est chef du pôle enfance de l'association Tama — en shimaoré, la langue mahoraise, ce mot signifie « espoir ».

Synonyms

mayottais

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mahorais"?
"mahorais" is spelled M-A-H-O-R-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\.
What does "mahorais" mean?
As an adjective, "mahorais" means: Relatif à Mayotte et à ses habitants.
How do you pronounce "mahorais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mahorais" is \ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mahorais", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list