mayennais
The verdict
“mayennais” is uncommon French (frequency #77,698 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,698
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au département français de la Mayenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayennais · mayennais · French
mayennais · rank #77,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,698
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mauges
Nearest frequency peer: Mauges (-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 « mayennais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- materia
materia
22,306 corpus weight
- Mauges
Mauges
22,304 corpus weight
- mayennais
mayennais
22,303 corpus weight
- Mayflower
Mayflower
22,302 corpus weight
- MCD
MCD
22,301 corpus weight
- medic
medic
22,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mayennais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mayennais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mayennais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mayennais is uncommon French at frequency #77,698 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mayennais in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mayennais, spelled M-A-Y-E-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif au département français de la Mayenne.
- 2Relatif à Mayenne, commune française située dans le département de la Mayenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mayennais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le prince Albert II est duc de Mayenne, il a déjà fait des dons aux institutions mayennaises, alors pourquoi pas à moi ? », a expliqué la jeune femme, à France Bleue.
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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