mamba
\mam.ba\
The verdict
“mamba” is uncommon French (frequency #56,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,090
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Serpent du genre Dendroaspis, de la famille des élapidés, que l’on trouve dans une grande partie de l’Afrique, à l’exception des zones désertiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mamba · mamba · French
mamba · rank #56,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,090
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malvoyants
Nearest frequency peer: malvoyants (-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 « mamba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- makeup
makeup
43,914 corpus weight
- malvoyants
malvoyants
43,912 corpus weight
- mamba
mamba
43,911 corpus weight
- managériales
managériales
43,910 corpus weight
- Manceau
Manceau
43,909 corpus weight
- manqueraient
manqueraient
43,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mamba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mam.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mamba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mamba is uncommon French at frequency #56,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mam.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Serpent du genre Dendroaspis, de la famille des élapidés, que l’on trouve dans une grande partie de l’Afrique, à l’exception des zones désertiques.".
mamba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mamba, spelled M-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Serpent du genre Dendroaspis, de la famille des élapidés, que l’on trouve dans une grande partie de l’Afrique, à l’exception des zones désertiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mamba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Swartz a tué dans le chariot un serpent de 2 mètres 75 de long, un mamba, le plus venimeux des ophidiens de ce pays-ci.
C’est un mamba. Tante, je l’ai tué parce que sa morsure est mortelle, fit-il plus particulièrement à l’adresse d’Ahou.
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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