maton
\ma.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“maton” is uncommon French (frequency #67,690 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,690
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lait caillé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maton · maton · French
maton · rank #67,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,690
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matines
Nearest frequency peer: matines (-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 « maton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Marennes
Marennes
32,316 corpus weight
- matines
matines
32,312 corpus weight
- maton
maton
32,311 corpus weight
- MDMA
MDMA
32,308 corpus weight
- meltdown
meltdown
32,307 corpus weight
- menacerait
menacerait
32,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maton is uncommon French at frequency #67,690 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for maton in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maton, spelled M-A-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Lait caillé.
- 2Petite masse agglomérée de certaines matières, qui se forme par accident lors de la fabrication.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Union européenne a accordé officiellement à la Mattentaart (tarte au maton) de Grammont, en Flandre orientale le statut de "produit européen du terroir".
Un maton de pâte à papier.
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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