mansion
\mɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“mansion” is uncommon French (frequency #54,088 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,088
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Station, étape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mansion · mansion · French
mansion · rank #54,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,088
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mangrove
Nearest frequency peer: mangrove (-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 « mansion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macaques
macaques
45,917 corpus weight
- malicieuse
malicieuse
45,915 corpus weight
- mangrove
mangrove
45,914 corpus weight
- mansion
mansion
45,913 corpus weight
- marginalité
marginalité
45,911 corpus weight
- marinade
marinade
45,910 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mansion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mansion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mansion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mansion is uncommon French at frequency #54,088 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mansion, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mansion, spelled M-A-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Station, étape.
- 2Maison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mansion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous aurez soin, à chaque mansion, de faire mutiler les chevaux derrière vous, afin qu’on ne puisse vous poursuivre.
Les 28 mansions de la lune.
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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