mobylettes
\mɔ.bi.lɛt\
The verdict
“mobylettes” is uncommon French (frequency #96,136 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,136
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mobylette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mobylettes · mobylettes · French
mobylettes · rank #96,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,136
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miséricordieu…
Nearest frequency peer: miséricordieuse (-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 « mobylettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- missed
missed
3,867 corpus weight
- miséricordi…
miséricordieuse
3,866 corpus weight
- mobylettes
mobylettes
3,865 corpus weight
- mochi
mochi
3,864 corpus weight
- modales
modales
3,863 corpus weight
- modest
modest
3,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mobylettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mobylettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.bi.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mobylettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mobylettes is uncommon French at frequency #96,136 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.bi.lɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mobylette.".
mobylettes has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mobylettes, spelled M-O-B-Y-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mobylette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mobylettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme les garçons du village lorsqu’ils passaient en trombe, sur leurs engins débridés, la bande des garçons du village qui se retrouvaient devant la mairie, les cigarettes qu’ils fumaient sur la selle de leurs mobylettes béquillées, en blue-jeans, reluquant les filles.
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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