misaine
\mi.zɛn\
The verdict
“misaine” is uncommon French (frequency #82,235 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,235
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mât d’avant, qui est près du mât de beaupré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-misaine · misaine · French
misaine · rank #82,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,235
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Minimoys
Nearest frequency peer: Minimoys (-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 « misaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mikasa
mikasa
17,770 corpus weight
- millas
millas
17,769 corpus weight
- Minimoys
Minimoys
17,767 corpus weight
- misaine
misaine
17,766 corpus weight
- MNHN
MNHN
17,763 corpus weight
- mobilisable
mobilisable
17,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « misaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | misaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.zɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « misaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
misaine is uncommon French at frequency #82,235 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.zɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for misaine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is misaine, spelled M-I-S-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Mât d’avant, qui est près du mât de beaupré.
- 2Voile la plus basse gréée sur le premier mât vertical placé à l’avant d’un navire, entre le beaupré et le grand mât.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how misaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; l’autre portion forme le gaillard d’avant, compris depuis les apôtres jusque vers le bout de l’arrière des porte-haubans de misaine.
Mais ce jour-là, la faible gîte du bateau, l’air tiède et une troupe d’épaulards dont il observait les sauts distrayèrent son attention pendant qu’il était appuyé à la grande vergue de misaine.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).