mitzvah
\mits.va\
The verdict
“mitzvah” is uncommon French (frequency #85,024 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,024
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commandement ou précepte inscrit dans la Thora.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mitzvah · mitzvah · French
mitzvah · rank #85,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,024
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mixés
Nearest frequency peer: mixés (+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 « mitzvah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- migrante
migrante
14,981 corpus weight
- Mimoun
Mimoun
14,979 corpus weight
- mitzvah
mitzvah
14,977 corpus weight
- mixés
mixés
14,976 corpus weight
- mnémonique
mnémonique
14,975 corpus weight
- Modane
Modane
14,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mitzvah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitzvah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mits.va\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mitzvah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mitzvah is uncommon French at frequency #85,024 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mits.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mitzvah, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mitzvah, spelled M-I-T-Z-V-A-H.
Definition
- 1Commandement ou précepte inscrit dans la Thora.
- 2Bonne action de nature religieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mitzvah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même si Auschwitz, dès les camps, mit plus d’un juif en délicatesse avec le Tout-Puissant, d’aucuns, observe le rabbi survivant, furent rassérénés d’avoir pu observer au moins une mitzvah à Auschwitz : celle du shofar à Rosh Hashanah.
La discussion qui suit cet enseignement de Rabbi Yehouda dans la guemara précise que ces trois mitzvoth doivent être accomplies dans un ordre précis : la nomination du roi d’abord, la destruction d’Amalek ensuite, la construction du Temple en dernier lieu.
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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