mitrailler
\mi.tʁɑ.je\
The verdict
“mitrailler” is uncommon French (frequency #70,851 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,851
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tirer le canon à mitraille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitrailler · mitrailler · French
mitrailler · rank #70,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,851
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitis
Nearest frequency peer: mitis (-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 « mitrailler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mirko
mirko
29,153 corpus weight
- mitis
mitis
29,151 corpus weight
- mitrailler
mitrailler
29,150 corpus weight
- mobilisateur
mobilisateur
29,149 corpus weight
- modelée
modelée
29,148 corpus weight
- modératrice
modératrice
29,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mitrailler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitrailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mi.tʁɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mitrailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mitrailler is uncommon French at frequency #70,851 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mi.tʁɑ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
mitrailler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mitrailler, spelled M-I-T-R-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tirer le canon à mitraille.
- 2Tirer à la mitrailleuse ou à la mitraillette.
- 3Tirer avec quelque arme à feu à feu nourri.
- 4Photographier rapidement et abondamment.
- 5Mitrailler quelqu’un de questions : Le harceler de questions.
- 6Faire quelque chose plusieurs fois d’affilée, à une vitesse très rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mitrailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons mitraillé pendant une heure.
Nous avons mitraillé l’ennemi.
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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