mentais
\mɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“mentais” is uncommon French (frequency #66,106 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,106
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de mentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentais · mentais · French
mentais · rank #66,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,106
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mektoub
Nearest frequency peer: mektoub (-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 « mentais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Michelangelo
Michelangelo
33,892 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mentais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mentais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mentais is uncommon French at frequency #66,106 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mentais, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mentais, spelled M-E-N-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de mentir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de mentir.
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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