maw
\mɔː\
The verdict
“maw” is uncommon French (frequency #86,914 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,914
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Estomac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maw · maw · French
maw · rank #86,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,914
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maudissant
Nearest frequency peer: maudissant (-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 « maw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- matérialisé…
matérialisées
13,089 corpus weight
- maudissant
maudissant
13,088 corpus weight
- maw
maw
13,087 corpus weight
- maxillaires
maxillaires
13,086 corpus weight
- MCP
MCP
13,085 corpus weight
- meets
meets
13,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maw is uncommon French at frequency #86,914 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for maw in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is maw, spelled M-A-W.
Definition
- 1Estomac.
- 2Gueule.
Synonyms
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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