mirador
\mi.ʁa.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“mirador” is uncommon French (frequency #51,611 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,611
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour de surveillance, poste d’observation, surtout dans un camp de prisonniers ou une prison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mirador · mirador · French
mirador · rank #51,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,611
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH millénium
Nearest frequency peer: millénium (-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 « mirador »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- microbrasse…
microbrasserie
48,393 corpus weight
- micron
micron
48,392 corpus weight
- millénium
millénium
48,391 corpus weight
- mirador
mirador
48,390 corpus weight
- Mombasa
Mombasa
48,388 corpus weight
- moquais
moquais
48,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mirador » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mirador |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ʁa.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mirador » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mirador is uncommon French at frequency #51,611 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ʁa.dɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tour de surveillance, poste d’observation, surtout dans un camp de prisonniers ou une prison.".
mirador doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mirador, spelled M-I-R-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Tour de surveillance, poste d’observation, surtout dans un camp de prisonniers ou une prison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mirador appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais essayé, grâce à l’amitié d’un sergent téléphoniste du mirador, de lui faire parvenir à mon tour un message rassurant…
Le long de cours d’eau qui creuse la région sauvage et montagneuse de la Transcarpatie, les gardes-frontières ne lésinent pas sur les moyens pour arrêter les fuyards : drones de surveillance thermiques, miradors, sentinelles postées en permanence aux affluents...
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).