mahut
\ma.y\
The verdict
“mahut” is uncommon French (frequency #52,809 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,809
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme d’expérience.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mahut · mahut · French
mahut · rank #52,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,809
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malfrat
Nearest frequency peer: malfrat (+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 « mahut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- léninisme
léninisme
47,195 corpus weight
- Lévêque
Lévêque
47,194 corpus weight
- mahut
mahut
47,192 corpus weight
- malfrat
malfrat
47,191 corpus weight
- mansuétude
mansuétude
47,190 corpus weight
- Marcelin
Marcelin
47,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mahut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.y\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mahut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mahut is uncommon French at frequency #52,809 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.y\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme d’expérience.".
mahut has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mahut, spelled M-A-H-U-T.
Definition
- 1Femme d’expérience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mahut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’une d’elles l’attire au prétexte de ramasser un tas de cailloux qu’elle a rassemblé. Au moment d’empoigner sa pelle, le voilà assailli par tout un groupe de ces mahuts ; il est mis à terre, maintenu et bien vite déculotté.
Nous sommes le jeudi 4 décembre, à Liévin, devant la Maison de la Mémoire et il est 8h45. Les musiciens de la Symphonie ouvrière des accordéonistes liévinois accordent leurs instruments. Les Gueules Noires et les Mahuts se tapotent sur les épaules et sautillent pour oublier le froid. La statue de la sainte Barbe sort enfin, escortée par les Gueules Noires…
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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