mitraillettes
\mi.tʁa.jɛt\
The verdict
“mitraillettes” is uncommon French (frequency #57,424 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,424
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mitraillette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitraillettes · mitraillettes · French
mitraillettes · rank #57,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,424
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitochondries
Nearest frequency peer: mitochondries (-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 « mitraillettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- minimaux
minimaux
42,580 corpus weight
- minimisation
minimisation
42,579 corpus weight
- mitochondri…
mitochondries
42,578 corpus weight
- mitraillett…
mitraillettes
42,577 corpus weight
- modifia
modifia
42,576 corpus weight
- modifiera
modifiera
42,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mitraillettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitraillettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.tʁa.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #57,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mitraillettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mitraillettes is uncommon French at frequency #57,424 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.tʁa.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mitraillette.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mitraillettes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mitraillettes, spelled M-I-T-R-A-I-L-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mitraillette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mitraillettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Minable ! Tout juste bon à jouer les mitraillettes, à lâcher une courte rafale et à se resliper !
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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