mash
\mɑʃ\
The verdict
“mash” is uncommon French (frequency #50,966 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,966
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de bouillie d’orge et d’avoine donnée pour la reconstitution de la vitalité des animaux d’élevage, particulièrement les chevaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mash · mash · French
mash · rank #50,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,966
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marquisat
Nearest frequency peer: marquisat (-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 « mash »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manquées
manquées
49,040 corpus weight
- manual
manual
49,038 corpus weight
- marchander
marchander
49,037 corpus weight
- marquisat
marquisat
49,036 corpus weight
- mash
mash
49,035 corpus weight
- meut
meut
49,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mash » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mash » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mash is uncommon French at frequency #50,966 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de bouillie d’orge et d’avoine donnée pour la reconstitution de la vitalité des animaux d’élevage, particulièrement les chevaux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mash in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mash, spelled M-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Sorte de bouillie d’orge et d’avoine donnée pour la reconstitution de la vitalité des animaux d’élevage, particulièrement les chevaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois par semaine était le jour du mash. Et de voir le bonheur des chevaux suffisait au mien, car le mash, plat de résistance à base de grains cuits, semblait être pour leurs papilles ce que sont les frites pour les enfants.
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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