mahorais
\ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\
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
- macias
macias
32,323 corpus weight
- maestria
maestria
32,322 corpus weight
- mahorais
mahorais
32,321 corpus weight
- malaisé
malaisé
32,320 corpus weight
- mappemonde
mappemonde
32,318 corpus weight
- marble
marble
32,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mahorais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahorais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ɔ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mahorais » en français
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
- 1Relatif à Mayotte et à ses habitants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mahorais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
Elle est chef du pôle enfance de l'association Tama — en shimaoré, la langue mahoraise, ce mot signifie « espoir ».
Synonyms
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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