mauviette
\mo.vjɛt\
The verdict
“mauviette” is uncommon French (frequency #85,006 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,006
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’alouette : l’alouette commune (Alauda arvensis).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauviette · mauviette · French
mauviette · rank #85,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,006
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matriciel
Nearest frequency peer: matriciel (-3 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 « mauviette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- martyrisée
martyrisée
15,000 corpus weight
- Mastodon
Mastodon
14,999 corpus weight
- matriciel
matriciel
14,998 corpus weight
- mauviette
mauviette
14,995 corpus weight
- meant
meant
14,992 corpus weight
- menotte
menotte
14,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mauviette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mauviette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.vjɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mauviette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mauviette is uncommon French at frequency #85,006 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.vjɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for mauviette in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mauviette, spelled M-A-U-V-I-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’alouette : l’alouette commune (Alauda arvensis).
- 2voire Personne grêle, fragile, ou d’un naturel peureux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mauviette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah ! si de cette fenêtre, où grésille une lumière, était seulement tombée dans la corne de mon feutre une mauviette rôtie au lieu de cette fleur fanée.
Pâté de mauviette, brochettes de mauviette.
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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