masochistes
\ma.zɔ.ʃist\
The verdict
“masochistes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,891 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,891
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de masochiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masochistes · masochistes · French
masochistes · rank #75,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,891
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marsouin
Nearest frequency peer: marsouin (-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 « masochistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marrent
marrent
24,113 corpus weight
- marsault
marsault
24,112 corpus weight
- marsouin
marsouin
24,111 corpus weight
- masochistes
masochistes
24,110 corpus weight
- massot
massot
24,109 corpus weight
- mathusalem
mathusalem
24,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « masochistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masochistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.zɔ.ʃist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « masochistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
masochistes is uncommon French at frequency #75,891 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.zɔ.ʃist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de masochiste.".
masochistes has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is masochistes, spelled M-A-S-O-C-H-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de masochiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how masochistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les masochistes montrent un besoin anormal d’être approuvés.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).