mentaille
The verdict
“mentaille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Software ; logiciel, programmes informatiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentaille · mentaille · French
mentaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mentaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mentaille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Software ; logiciel, programmes informatiques.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mentaille, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 mentaille, spelled M-E-N-T-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Software ; logiciel, programmes informatiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mentaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La particularité majeure de cette évolution est, dans tout travail, la prépondérance croissante de l'esprit sur le muscle, ou, pour utiliser des expressions modernes, du logiciel sur le hardware, ou encore de la « mentaille » sur la « quincaille » ainsi que Louis Armand les avait désignées en son temps.
Il préconisait également « mentaille » comme traduction de software.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.