matines
\ma.tin\
The verdict
“matines” is uncommon French (frequency #67,689 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,689
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première partie de l’office divin, contenant un certain nombre de psaumes et de leçons qui se disent ordinairement très tôt le matin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matines · matines · French
matines · rank #67,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,689
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maton
Nearest frequency peer: maton (+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 « matines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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marble
32,317 corpus weight
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Marennes
32,316 corpus weight
- matines
matines
32,312 corpus weight
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maton
32,311 corpus weight
- MDMA
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32,308 corpus weight
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meltdown
32,307 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « matines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matines is uncommon French at frequency #67,689 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première partie de l’office divin, contenant un certain nombre de psaumes et de leçons qui se disent ordinairement très tôt le matin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for matines in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 matines, spelled M-A-T-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Première partie de l’office divin, contenant un certain nombre de psaumes et de leçons qui se disent ordinairement très tôt le matin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il aimerait mieux entendre, au point du jour, la trompette sonner le boute-selle pour monter à cheval, que la cloche tinter matines pour courir à l’église!
La renommée vous proclame un moine jovial, qui a l’habitude d’entendre sonner matines avant de quitter son verre, ….
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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