mauna
The verdict
“mauna” is uncommon French (frequency #96,117 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,117
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauna · mauna · French
mauna · rank #96,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,117
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Matsu
Nearest frequency peer: Matsu (-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 « mauna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- masterpiece
masterpiece
3,888 corpus weight
- mathématici…
mathématicienne
3,886 corpus weight
- Matsu
Matsu
3,885 corpus weight
- mauna
mauna
3,884 corpus weight
- mazas
mazas
3,883 corpus weight
- Mechelen
Mechelen
3,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mauna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mauna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mauna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mauna is uncommon French at frequency #96,117 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Montagne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mauna, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mauna, spelled M-A-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Montagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mauna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mauna kea — montagne blanche
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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