mapa
\ˈma.pa\
The verdict
“mapa” is uncommon French (frequency #89,897 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,897
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carte, plan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mapa · mapa · French
mapa · rank #89,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,897
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Manitobains
Nearest frequency peer: Manitobains (-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 « mapa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mandants
mandants
10,108 corpus weight
- mangions
mangions
10,107 corpus weight
- manifestons
manifestons
10,106 corpus weight
- Manitobains
Manitobains
10,105 corpus weight
- mapa
mapa
10,104 corpus weight
- marbrée
marbrée
10,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mapa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mapa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈma.pa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mapa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mapa is uncommon French at frequency #89,897 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈma.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Carte, plan.".
mapa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 mapa, spelled M-A-P-A.
Definition
- 1Carte, plan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mapa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sacó del bolsillo un mapa bastante ajado y se puso a estudiarlo con concentrada atención.
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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