matelassé
\ma.tla.se\
The verdict
“matelassé” is uncommon French (frequency #99,337 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,337
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe matelasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matelasse · matelassé · French
matelassé · rank #99,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,337
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Martius
Nearest frequency peer: Martius (-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 « matelassé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mariposa
mariposa
668 corpus weight
- marita
marita
667 corpus weight
- Martius
Martius
665 corpus weight
- matelassé
matelassé
664 corpus weight
- Matzneff
Matzneff
662 corpus weight
- Maudet
Maudet
660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « matelassé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matelassé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ma.tla.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matelassé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matelassé is uncommon French at frequency #99,337 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ma.tla.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe matelasser.".
matelassé has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 matelassé, spelled M-A-T-E-L-A-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe matelasser.
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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