mastiquer
\mas.ti.ke\
The verdict
“mastiquer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,920 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,920
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mâcher avec soin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mastiquer · mastiquer · French
mastiquer · rank #90,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,920
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mascarades
Nearest frequency peer: mascarades (-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 « mastiquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Marylène
Marylène
9,083 corpus weight
- mascarades
mascarades
9,082 corpus weight
- mastiquer
mastiquer
9,081 corpus weight
- matamore
matamore
9,080 corpus weight
- matous
matous
9,079 corpus weight
- maximisant
maximisant
9,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mastiquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mastiquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mas.ti.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mastiquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mastiquer is uncommon French at frequency #90,920 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mas.ti.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mâcher avec soin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mastiquer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mastiquer, spelled M-A-S-T-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mâcher avec soin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mastiquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et tous ces mets criaient des choses nonpareilles Mais nom de Dieu ! Ventre affamé n’a pas d’oreilles Et les convives mastiquaient à qui mieux mieux.
Après la conversation de l’écurie, dont toute la famille Haudouin avait eu déjà des échos, on aurait pu croire que le repas allait être mastiqué dans un silence consterné.
This word in other languages
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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