mapuche
\ma.pu.tʃe\
The verdict
“mapuche” is uncommon French (frequency #84,045 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,045
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la langue mapuche, le mapudungun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mapuche · mapuche · French
mapuche · rank #84,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,045
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maracas
Nearest frequency peer: maracas (+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 « mapuche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maharaja
maharaja
15,960 corpus weight
- malvoyantes
malvoyantes
15,959 corpus weight
- mapuche
mapuche
15,956 corpus weight
- maracas
maracas
15,955 corpus weight
- marchèrent
marchèrent
15,954 corpus weight
- Marcillac
Marcillac
15,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mapuche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mapuche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.pu.tʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mapuche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mapuche is uncommon French at frequency #84,045 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.pu.tʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mapuche in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mapuche, spelled M-A-P-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la langue mapuche, le mapudungun.
- 2Relatif aux Mapuches, vivant en Argentine et au Chili.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mapuche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous accordez plus de crédit aux racontars d’une domestique mapuche qu’à ma parole… martela-t-elle, furieuse.
Nous nous sommes retrouvés à l'intérieur d’une ruka, une habitation traditionnelle mapuche, semi-circulaire avec un toit de chaume.
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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