Misrata
\mis.ʁa.ta\
The verdict
“Misrata” is uncommon French (frequency #78,645 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,645
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Libye.
Corpus desk
Index FR-misrata · Misrata · French
Misrata · rank #78,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,645
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mistake
Nearest frequency peer: mistake (+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 « Misrata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minoterie
minoterie
21,360 corpus weight
- miot
miot
21,359 corpus weight
- Misrata
Misrata
21,356 corpus weight
- mistake
mistake
21,355 corpus weight
- mitoyens
mitoyens
21,354 corpus weight
- modems
modems
21,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Misrata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Misrata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mis.ʁa.ta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Misrata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Misrata is uncommon French at frequency #78,645 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mis.ʁa.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Libye.".
Misrata doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Misrata, spelled M-I-S-R-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de Libye.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Misrata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les brigades de Misrata, rituellement dénoncées comme hégémoniques par les villes voisines, sauront-elles se garder des erreurs du passé ? Le moindre de leur faux pas, à Syrte comme à Beni Oualid, pourrait être exploité par les partisans du général Haftar.
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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