modale
\mo.dal\
The verdict
“modale” is uncommon French (frequency #56,114 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,114
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fenêtre modale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modale · modale · French
modale · rank #56,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,114
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mithra
Nearest frequency peer: Mithra (-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 « modale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Misha
Misha
43,890 corpus weight
- Mississauga
Mississauga
43,889 corpus weight
- Mithra
Mithra
43,888 corpus weight
- modale
modale
43,887 corpus weight
- modesto
modesto
43,886 corpus weight
- Monastir
Monastir
43,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.dal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modale is uncommon French at frequency #56,114 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fenêtre modale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for modale in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is modale, spelled M-O-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Fenêtre modale.
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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