mathusalem
\ma.ty.za.lɛm\
The verdict
“mathusalem” is uncommon French (frequency #75,893 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,893
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grosse bouteille d'une contenance de huit bouteilles de 75 cl (soit 6 litres).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mathusalem · mathusalem · French
mathusalem · rank #75,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,893
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH massot
Nearest frequency peer: massot (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mathusalem”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- marsouin
marsouin
24,111 corpus weight
- masochistes
masochistes
24,110 corpus weight
- massot
massot
24,109 corpus weight
- mathusalem
mathusalem
24,108 corpus weight
- Mauresmo
Mauresmo
24,106 corpus weight
- Mayne
Mayne
24,105 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mathusalem” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mathusalem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ty.za.lɛm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mathusalem” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mathusalem is uncommon French at frequency #75,893 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ty.za.lɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grosse bouteille d'une contenance de huit bouteilles de 75 cl (soit 6 litres).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mathusalem, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mathusalem, spelled M-A-T-H-U-S-A-L-E-M.
Definition
- 1Grosse bouteille d'une contenance de huit bouteilles de 75 cl (soit 6 litres).
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.