Mainz
The verdict
“Mainz” is uncommon French (frequency #96,097 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,097
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mayence (ville allemande).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mainz · Mainz · French
Mainz · rank #96,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,097
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mainland
Nearest frequency peer: mainland (-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 « Mainz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lâchage
lâchage
3,908 corpus weight
- Légitimus
Légitimus
3,907 corpus weight
- mainland
mainland
3,905 corpus weight
- Mainz
Mainz
3,904 corpus weight
- Malenfant
Malenfant
3,903 corpus weight
- malthusiani…
malthusianisme
3,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mainz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mainz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mainz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mainz is uncommon French at frequency #96,097 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mayence (ville allemande).".
Mainz doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mainz, spelled M-A-I-N-Z.
Definition
- 1Mayence (ville allemande).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mainz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der alte freie Weg nach Mainz war gesperrt, ich mußte über die Schiffbrücke bei Rüsselsheim; in Ginsheim ward gefüttert; der Ort ist sehr zerschossen; dann über die Schiffbrücke auf die Nonnenaue, wo viele Bäume niedergehauen lagen, sofort auf dem zweiten Teil der Schiffbrücke über den größern Arm des Rheins. (Goethe, Belagerung von Mainz, z.n. Projekt Gu…
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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