mégalo
\me.ɡa.lo\
The verdict
“mégalo” is uncommon French (frequency #58,777 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,777
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mégalomane ; désigne quelqu'un qui a une estime de lui-même exagérée, délirante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megalo · mégalo · French
mégalo · rank #58,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,777
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médicalisé
Nearest frequency peer: médicalisé (-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 « mégalo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mystificati…
mystification
41,226 corpus weight
- médicalisé
médicalisé
41,225 corpus weight
- mégalo
mégalo
41,224 corpus weight
- Mélusine
Mélusine
41,223 corpus weight
- nanar
nanar
41,222 corpus weight
- nativement
nativement
41,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mégalo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mégalo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mégalo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mégalo is uncommon French at frequency #58,777 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.ɡa.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mégalomane ; désigne quelqu'un qui a une estime de lui-même exagérée, délirante.".
mégalo has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mégalo, spelled M-É-G-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Mégalomane ; désigne quelqu'un qui a une estime de lui-même exagérée, délirante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mégalo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je crois que je deviens mégalo.
Les grands musiciens sont souvent de grands calmes, car ils ont la connaissance quasi mystique de l’énergie. Et ça, c’est grisant. C’est complètement mégalo, alchimique : ils transforment un objet en musique, du plomb en or.
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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