modal
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,838
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
modal is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se rapporte aux modes d'une substance. Pronounced \mo.dal\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \mo.dal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for modal is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mo.dal\. Corpus data places it at rank #52,838 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for modal in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is modal, spelled M-O-D-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte aux modes d'une substance.
- 2Rapporté au sujet selon un mode déterminé (possibilité ou impossibilité, nécessité ou contingence). → voir modale, ellipse de proposition modale.
- 3Qui force une réponse avant de poursuivre.
- 4Qui est propre aux modes du verbe ou qui les caractérise.
- 5Relatif aux différents modes musicaux. Se dit aussi parfois d'une musique qui emploie d'autres échelles que l'échelle tonale.
- 6Relatif aux modes de transport.
- 7Qui a la fréquence la plus élevée.
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Frequency rank: #52,838 in French
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