mitrailler
\mi.tʁɑ.je\
The verdict
“mitrailler” is an uncommon French word, ranked #70,851 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #70,851
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tirer le canon à mitraille.
| 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) |
Where “mitrailler” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mitrailler is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.tʁɑ.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #70,851 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “mitrailler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-I-T-R-A-I-L-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mi.tʁɑ.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.