Mascate
\mas.kat\
The verdict
“Mascate” is uncommon French (frequency #73,346 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,346
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale du Sultanat d’Oman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mascate · Mascate · French
Mascate · rank #73,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,346
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marâtre
Nearest frequency peer: marâtre (-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 « Mascate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marnais
marnais
26,658 corpus weight
- marton
marton
26,657 corpus weight
- marâtre
marâtre
26,656 corpus weight
- Mascate
Mascate
26,655 corpus weight
- mathurins
mathurins
26,654 corpus weight
- mechanical
mechanical
26,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mascate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mascate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mas.kat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mascate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mascate is uncommon French at frequency #73,346 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mas.kat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville et capitale du Sultanat d’Oman.".
Mascate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Mascate, spelled M-A-S-C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale du Sultanat d’Oman.
Synonyms
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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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