mât d’artimon
\mɑ d‿aʁ.ti.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“mât d’artimon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premier mât derrière le grand mât dans un navie ayant deux mâts ou plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mat-d-artimon · mât d’artimon · French
mât d’artimon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mât d’artimon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ d‿aʁ.ti.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mât d’artimon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mât d’artimon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɑ d‿aʁ.ti.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Premier mât derrière le grand mât dans un navie ayant deux mâts ou plus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mât d’artimon, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mât d’artimon, spelled M-Â-T- -D-’-A-R-T-I-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Premier mât derrière le grand mât dans un navie ayant deux mâts ou plus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mât d’artimon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les yachtsmen qui aiment arborer un pavillon de club en route, le yawl sera toujours populaire car ce petit mât d’artimon fait un bon bâton de pavillon.
En passant sous le mât d’artimon, elle vit Quintin qui se tenait immobile, bien droit, les bras croisés.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.