mainframe
\mɛjn.fʁɛm\
The verdict
“mainframe” is uncommon French (frequency #89,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordinateur central.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mainframe · mainframe · French
mainframe · rank #89,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,892
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magyare
Nearest frequency peer: magyare (-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 « mainframe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnifiée
magnifiée
10,112 corpus weight
- magouiller
magouiller
10,111 corpus weight
- magyare
magyare
10,110 corpus weight
- mainframe
mainframe
10,109 corpus weight
- mandants
mandants
10,108 corpus weight
- mangions
mangions
10,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mainframe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mainframe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛjn.fʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mainframe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mainframe is uncommon French at frequency #89,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛjn.fʁɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ordinateur central.".
mainframe has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mainframe, spelled M-A-I-N-F-R-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Ordinateur central.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mainframe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mainframe est l’ancêtre hybride du réseau et de l’ordinateur.
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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