mitaines
\mi.tɛn\
The verdict
“mitaines” is uncommon French (frequency #58,093 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,093
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mitaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitaines · mitaines · French
mitaines · rank #58,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,093
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH minimisé
Nearest frequency peer: minimisé (-2 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 « mitaines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Milet
Milet
41,912 corpus weight
- minimisé
minimisé
41,910 corpus weight
- mitaines
mitaines
41,908 corpus weight
- Modiano
Modiano
41,905 corpus weight
- molard
molard
41,904 corpus weight
- molybdène
molybdène
41,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mitaines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mitaines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mitaines is uncommon French at frequency #58,093 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mitaine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mitaines, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mitaines, spelled M-I-T-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mitaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mitaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Denise vit une tartanelle à quarante-cinq centimes, des bandes de vison d’Amérique à un franc, et des mitaines à cinq sous.
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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