Mahrez
The verdict
“Mahrez” is uncommon French (frequency #78,611 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,611
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mahrez · Mahrez · French
Mahrez · rank #78,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,611
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mahault
Nearest frequency peer: Mahault (-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 « Mahrez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magneto
magneto
21,393 corpus weight
- magno
magno
21,392 corpus weight
- Mahault
Mahault
21,391 corpus weight
- Mahrez
Mahrez
21,390 corpus weight
- majestueuse…
majestueusement
21,389 corpus weight
- majorette
majorette
21,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mahrez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mahrez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mahrez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mahrez is uncommon French at frequency #78,611 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Mahrez doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mahrez, spelled M-A-H-R-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mahrez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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