Mastodon
\mas.tɔ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“Mastodon” is uncommon French (frequency #85,002 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,002
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réseau social et logiciel de microblog auto-hébergé, libre, distribué et décentralisé via ActivityPub au sein du Fediverse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mastodon · Mastodon · French
Mastodon · rank #85,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,002
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH martyrisée
Nearest frequency peer: martyrisée (-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 « Mastodon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manipulait
manipulait
15,004 corpus weight
- marieront
marieront
15,003 corpus weight
- martyrisée
martyrisée
15,000 corpus weight
- Mastodon
Mastodon
14,999 corpus weight
- matriciel
matriciel
14,998 corpus weight
- mauviette
mauviette
14,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mastodon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mastodon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mas.tɔ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mastodon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mastodon is uncommon French at frequency #85,002 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mas.tɔ.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réseau social et logiciel de microblog auto-hébergé, libre, distribué et décentralisé via ActivityPub au sein du Fediverse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mastodon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Mastodon, spelled M-A-S-T-O-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Réseau social et logiciel de microblog auto-hébergé, libre, distribué et décentralisé via ActivityPub au sein du Fediverse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mastodon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi elles, Mastodon, qui aurait aujourd’hui plus de 670 000 inscrits, selon le Guardian, gagnerait des milliers d’utilisateurs chaque jour.
Mastodon est un réseau social créé en 2016 par Eugen Rochko, un jeune informaticien allemand.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).