mentira
\mɑ̃.ti.ʁa\
The verdict
“mentira” is uncommon French (frequency #86,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentira · mentira · French
mentira · rank #86,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,921
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mentionnaient
Nearest frequency peer: mentionnaient (-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 « mentira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- meets
meets
13,084 corpus weight
- mentionnaie…
mentionnaient
13,081 corpus weight
- mentira
mentira
13,080 corpus weight
- mici
mici
13,079 corpus weight
- micmacs
micmacs
13,077 corpus weight
- Mihai
Mihai
13,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mentira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.ti.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mentira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mentira is uncommon French at frequency #86,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.ti.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de mentir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mentira in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mentira, spelled M-E-N-T-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur 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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