Mayflower
\mej.flo.wœʁ\
The verdict
“Mayflower” is uncommon French (frequency #77,699 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,699
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaisseau marchand britannique du XVII^(ème) siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayflower · Mayflower · French
Mayflower · rank #77,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,699
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mayennais
Nearest frequency peer: mayennais (-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 « Mayflower »
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 « Mayflower » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mayflower |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mej.flo.wœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mayflower » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mayflower is uncommon French at frequency #77,699 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mej.flo.wœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vaisseau marchand britannique du XVII^(ème) siècle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mayflower in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Mayflower, spelled M-A-Y-F-L-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Vaisseau marchand britannique du XVII^(ème) siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mayflower appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Mayflower quitta Plymouth le 16 septembre 1620.
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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