mégalomanie
\me.ɡa.lɔ.ma.ni\
The verdict
“mégalomanie” is uncommon French (frequency #63,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,189
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manie qui consiste soit en un désir insatiable de gloire, de grandeur, soit dans l’illusion qu’on les possède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-megalomanie · mégalomanie · French
mégalomanie · rank #63,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,189
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Méline
Nearest frequency peer: Méline (+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 « mégalomanie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moustiquair…
moustiquaires
36,817 corpus weight
- myron
myron
36,814 corpus weight
- mégalomanie
mégalomanie
36,812 corpus weight
- Méline
Méline
36,811 corpus weight
- mémorielle
mémorielle
36,810 corpus weight
- nabot
nabot
36,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mégalomanie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mégalomanie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ɡa.lɔ.ma.ni\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mégalomanie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mégalomanie is uncommon French at frequency #63,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ɡa.lɔ.ma.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manie qui consiste soit en un désir insatiable de gloire, de grandeur, soit dans l’illusion qu’on les possède.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mégalomanie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mégalomanie, spelled M-É-G-A-L-O-M-A-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manie qui consiste soit en un désir insatiable de gloire, de grandeur, soit dans l’illusion qu’on les possède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mégalomanie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une faiblesse, cependant : son ambition démesurée, qui tourne à la mégalomanie. Il se rêve à la Chambre, au gouvernement.
La mégalomanie, quezaco ? Elle consiste en une surestimation de ses capacités qui se traduit par un désir immodéré de puissance et un amour exclusif ou excessif de soi.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).