mektoub
\mɛk.tub\
The verdict
“mektoub” is uncommon French (frequency #66,105 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,105
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamation qui exprime le fatalisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mektoub · mektoub · French
mektoub · rank #66,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,105
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Medellín
Nearest frequency peer: Medellín (-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 « mektoub »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maximums
maximums
33,899 corpus weight
- McGraw
McGraw
33,898 corpus weight
- Medellín
Medellín
33,897 corpus weight
- mektoub
mektoub
33,896 corpus weight
- mentais
mentais
33,895 corpus weight
- Metzger
Metzger
33,893 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mektoub » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mektoub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \mɛk.tub\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mektoub » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mektoub is uncommon French at frequency #66,105 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \mɛk.tub\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exclamation qui exprime le fatalisme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mektoub, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mektoub, spelled M-E-K-T-O-U-B.
Definition
- 1Exclamation qui exprime le fatalisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mektoub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fatum, disent les latins : c’était dit ; mektoub, disent les Arabes : c’était écrit. […] La fatalité, c’est le triomphe du langage.
Comme des faisans à la Bourse Les demi-sels se croient des mecs Mektoub ! un jour ils l’auront sec.
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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