mainlevée
\mɛ̃.lə.ve\
The verdict
“mainlevée” is uncommon French (frequency #82,210 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,210
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte judiciaire ou volontaire qui lève l’empêchement résultant d’une saisie, d’une opposition, d’une inscription.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mainlevee · mainlevée · French
mainlevée · rank #82,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,210
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manant
Nearest frequency peer: manant (+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 « mainlevée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mafalda
Mafalda
17,794 corpus weight
- magnifie
magnifie
17,793 corpus weight
- mainlevée
mainlevée
17,791 corpus weight
- manant
manant
17,790 corpus weight
- manipules
manipules
17,789 corpus weight
- maran
maran
17,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mainlevée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mainlevée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.lə.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mainlevée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mainlevée is uncommon French at frequency #82,210 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛ̃.lə.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acte judiciaire ou volontaire qui lève l’empêchement résultant d’une saisie, d’une opposition, d’une inscription.".
mainlevée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mainlevée, spelled M-A-I-N-L-E-V-É-E.
Definition
- 1Acte judiciaire ou volontaire qui lève l’empêchement résultant d’une saisie, d’une opposition, d’une inscription.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mainlevée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Demander, obtenir, accorder mainlevée d’une saisie-arrêt, d’une saisie-exécution, d’une saisie réelle.
La caution est solidairement tenue de l’intégralité de la part du prix de vente TTC non payée au comptant. Ce montant est un plafond de garantie à concurrence duquel la caution peut être appelée en une ou plusieurs fois jusqu’à mainlevée de son engagement. La mainlevée de la caution est prononcée après paiement de l’ensemble du prix de vente.
This word in other languages
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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