mitrailleurs
\mi.tʁa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“mitrailleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #60,970 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,970
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mitrailleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitrailleurs · mitrailleurs · French
mitrailleurs · rank #60,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,970
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH missives
Nearest frequency peer: missives (-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 « mitrailleurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- miko
miko
39,035 corpus weight
- Milot
Milot
39,034 corpus weight
- missives
missives
39,032 corpus weight
- mitrailleurs
mitrailleurs
39,031 corpus weight
- monoculture
monoculture
39,029 corpus weight
- Montpelliér…
Montpelliérains
39,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mitrailleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitrailleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.tʁa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mitrailleurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mitrailleurs is uncommon French at frequency #60,970 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \mi.tʁa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mitrailleur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mitrailleurs, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mitrailleurs, spelled M-I-T-R-A-I-L-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mitrailleur.
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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