Midas
\mi.das\
The verdict
“Midas” is uncommon French (frequency #54,730 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,730
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi de Phrygie, héros de plusieurs mythes relatifs à ses oreilles d'âne et à sa faculté de transformer en or ce qu'il touchait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-midas · Midas · French
Midas · rank #54,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,730
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mew
Nearest frequency peer: mew (-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 « Midas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- memento
memento
45,274 corpus weight
- Menahem
Menahem
45,273 corpus weight
- mew
mew
45,272 corpus weight
- Midas
Midas
45,271 corpus weight
- minage
minage
45,270 corpus weight
- mixed
mixed
45,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Midas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Midas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.das\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Midas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Midas is uncommon French at frequency #54,730 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mi.das\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roi de Phrygie, héros de plusieurs mythes relatifs à ses oreilles d'âne et à sa faculté de transformer en or ce qu'il touchait.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Midas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Midas, spelled M-I-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Roi de Phrygie, héros de plusieurs mythes relatifs à ses oreilles d'âne et à sa faculté de transformer en or ce qu'il touchait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Midas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En rentrant chez lui, Lucien était un peu comme le barbier du roi Midas : il mourait d’envie de raconter son bonheur.
Autrefois victorieux des primaires républicaines grâce à ses tactiques efficaces de mépris et d'humiliation de ses opposants et surtout vainqueur face à Hillary Clinton en 2016, Donald Trump n’est plus le roi Midas de jadis qui transformait en or tout ce qu’il touchait.
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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