mistress
\mis.tʁɛs\
The verdict
“mistress” is uncommon French (frequency #65,322 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,322
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Madame (suivi d’un nom de famille).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mistress · mistress · French
mistress · rank #65,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,322
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Minorque
Nearest frequency peer: Minorque (-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 « mistress »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minimisent
minimisent
34,681 corpus weight
- Minorque
Minorque
34,680 corpus weight
- mistress
mistress
34,679 corpus weight
- MLM
MLM
34,677 corpus weight
- mobilisables
mobilisables
34,676 corpus weight
- modularité
modularité
34,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mistress » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mistress |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mis.tʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mistress » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mistress is uncommon French at frequency #65,322 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mis.tʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Madame (suivi d’un nom de famille).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mistress, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mistress, spelled M-I-S-T-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Madame (suivi d’un nom de famille).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mistress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maigre, dans sa robe d’indienne bleue à pois blancs, mistress O’Molloy intervint.
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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