Méphisto
The verdict
“Méphisto” is uncommon French (frequency #88,915 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,915
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méphistophélès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mephisto · Méphisto · French
Méphisto · rank #88,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,915
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mélamine
Nearest frequency peer: mélamine (-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 « Méphisto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mush
mush
11,089 corpus weight
- mégas
mégas
11,088 corpus weight
- mélamine
mélamine
11,087 corpus weight
- Méphisto
Méphisto
11,086 corpus weight
- méritante
méritante
11,085 corpus weight
- métairies
métairies
11,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Méphisto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Méphisto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Méphisto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Méphisto is uncommon French at frequency #88,915 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Méphistophélès.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Méphisto in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Méphisto, spelled M-É-P-H-I-S-T-O.
Definition
- 1Méphistophélès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Méphisto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hogg devint le Méphisto de ce jeune Faust [Shelley] et le confident de ses publications subversives.
Disciples du vieux Faust, écoliers, bacheliers, Qui penchez sur maint tome une face abattue Dans les doctes bazars où la lettre vous tue, Entendez Méphisto rire au creux des piliers.
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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