massot
\ma.so\
The verdict
“massot” is uncommon French (frequency #75,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des noms vulgaires du labre tourde, poisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-massot · massot · French
massot · rank #75,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,892
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH masochistes
Nearest frequency peer: masochistes (-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 « massot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Mauresmo
Mauresmo
24,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « massot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | massot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.so\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « massot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
massot is uncommon French at frequency #75,892 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des noms vulgaires du labre tourde, poisson.".
massot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is massot, spelled M-A-S-S-O-T.
Definition
- 1Un des noms vulgaires du labre tourde, poisson.
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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