mamelouks
\mam.luk\
The verdict
“mamelouks” is uncommon French (frequency #83,133 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,133
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mamelouk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mamelouks · mamelouks · French
mamelouks · rank #83,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,133
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maltaise
Nearest frequency peer: maltaise (-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 « mamelouks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mahan
mahan
16,872 corpus weight
- maltaise
maltaise
16,869 corpus weight
- mamelouks
mamelouks
16,868 corpus weight
- Manfredi
Manfredi
16,867 corpus weight
- manguier
manguier
16,866 corpus weight
- Manley
Manley
16,865 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mamelouks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamelouks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mam.luk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mamelouks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mamelouks is uncommon French at frequency #83,133 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mam.luk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mamelouk.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mamelouks in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mamelouks, spelled M-A-M-E-L-O-U-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mamelouk.
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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