masterpiece
\ˈmæs.tɚ.ˌpis\
The verdict
“masterpiece” is uncommon French (frequency #96,113 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,113
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef-d’œuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masterpiece · masterpiece · French
masterpiece · rank #96,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,113
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massées
Nearest frequency peer: massées (-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 « masterpiece »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- massées
massées
3,889 corpus weight
- masterpiece
masterpiece
3,888 corpus weight
- mathématici…
mathématicienne
3,886 corpus weight
- Matsu
Matsu
3,885 corpus weight
- mauna
mauna
3,884 corpus weight
- mazas
mazas
3,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « masterpiece » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | masterpiece |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmæs.tɚ.ˌpis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « masterpiece » en français
Rare enough to double-check
masterpiece is uncommon French at frequency #96,113 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmæs.tɚ.ˌpis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chef-d’œuvre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for masterpiece, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 masterpiece, spelled M-A-S-T-E-R-P-I-E-C-E.
Definition
- 1Chef-d’œuvre.
Synonyms
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).