mangouste

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mangouste is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.ɡust\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,426 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fruit du mangoustan, de la grosseur d’une petite orange et d’une saveur sucrée, légèrement acide avec un parfum de framboise.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mangouste in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mangouste, spelled M-A-N-G-O-U-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.