mistake
\mɪˈsteɪk\
The verdict
“mistake” is uncommon French (frequency #78,646 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,646
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se tromper, se méprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mistake · mistake · French
mistake · rank #78,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,646
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Misrata
Nearest frequency peer: Misrata (-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 « mistake »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- modifiez
modifiez
21,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mistake » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mistake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɪˈsteɪk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mistake » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mistake is uncommon French at frequency #78,646 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɪˈsteɪk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mistake in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 mistake, spelled M-I-S-T-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Se tromper, se méprendre.
- 2Faire une erreur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mistake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I’m sorry. I mistook you for someone else.
Synonyms
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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