mangouste
\mɑ̃.ɡust\
The verdict
“mangouste” is uncommon French (frequency #62,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,426
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du mangoustan, de la grosseur d’une petite orange et d’une saveur sucrée, légèrement acide avec un parfum de framboise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mangouste · mangouste · French
mangouste · rank #62,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,426
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manda
Nearest frequency peer: manda (-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 « mangouste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- machu
machu
37,578 corpus weight
- macrophages
macrophages
37,577 corpus weight
- manda
manda
37,576 corpus weight
- mangouste
mangouste
37,575 corpus weight
- mansart
mansart
37,574 corpus weight
- maquilleur
maquilleur
37,573 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mangouste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mangouste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ɡust\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mangouste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mangouste is uncommon French at frequency #62,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.ɡust\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit du mangoustan, de la grosseur d’une petite orange et d’une saveur sucrée, légèrement acide avec un parfum de framboise.".
mangouste has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mangouste, spelled M-A-N-G-O-U-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fruit du mangoustan, de la grosseur d’une petite orange et d’une saveur sucrée, légèrement acide avec un parfum de framboise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mangouste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le brave garçon avait acheté quelques douzaines de mangoustes, grosses comme des pommes moyennes, d’un brun foncé au-dehors, d’un rouge éclatant au-dedans,[…].
La mangouste est le fruit préféré de maman, la jambose celui de Kim.
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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