MDL
\ɛm.de.ɛl\
The verdict
“MDL” is uncommon French (frequency #83,151 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,151
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maréchal des logis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mdl · MDL · French
MDL · rank #83,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,151
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mauser
Nearest frequency peer: Mauser (-2 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 « MDL »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- masturbant
masturbant
16,856 corpus weight
- Mauser
Mauser
16,852 corpus weight
- MDL
MDL
16,850 corpus weight
- meli
meli
16,848 corpus weight
- mentionnera
mentionnera
16,846 corpus weight
- mercatique
mercatique
16,845 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MDL » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MDL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.de.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MDL » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MDL is uncommon French at frequency #83,151 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛm.de.ɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maréchal des logis.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for MDL, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 MDL, spelled M-D-L.
Definition
- 1Maréchal des logis.
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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