Maputo
\ma.pu.to\
The verdict
“Maputo” is uncommon French (frequency #60,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,189
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Mozambique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maputo · Maputo · French
Maputo · rank #60,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,189
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mander
Nearest frequency peer: mander (-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 « Maputo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maintint
maintint
39,815 corpus weight
- malvenu
malvenu
39,814 corpus weight
- mander
mander
39,813 corpus weight
- Maputo
Maputo
39,812 corpus weight
- marchepied
marchepied
39,811 corpus weight
- marika
marika
39,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maputo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maputo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.pu.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maputo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maputo is uncommon French at frequency #60,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.pu.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capitale du Mozambique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Maputo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Maputo, spelled M-A-P-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Mozambique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maputo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... elle ne s’appelait pas Maputo à l’époque. Elle portaient encore le vieux nom colonial que lui avaient donné les Portugais : Lourenço Marques.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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