matent
\mat\
The verdict
“matent” is uncommon French (frequency #74,990 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,990
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matent · matent · French
matent · rank #74,990 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,990
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matar
Nearest frequency peer: matar (-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 « matent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- margelle
margelle
25,016 corpus weight
- martyriser
martyriser
25,014 corpus weight
- matar
matar
25,012 corpus weight
- matent
matent
25,011 corpus weight
- Matilde
Matilde
25,010 corpus weight
- maven
maven
25,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « matent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matent is uncommon French at frequency #74,990 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for matent, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is matent, spelled M-A-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mater.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de mater.
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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