mattes
\mat\
The verdict
“mattes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,791 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,791
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de matte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mattes · mattes · French
mattes · rank #76,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,791
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matricielle
Nearest frequency peer: matricielle (-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 « mattes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maréchale
maréchale
23,214 corpus weight
- matching
matching
23,213 corpus weight
- matricielle
matricielle
23,211 corpus weight
- mattes
mattes
23,210 corpus weight
- Maylis
Maylis
23,208 corpus weight
- mazars
mazars
23,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mattes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mattes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mattes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mattes is uncommon French at frequency #76,791 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de matte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mattes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mattes, spelled M-A-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de matte.
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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