mode

/\mɔd\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#585

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mode is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière de voir ou d’agir ; fantaisie. Pronounced \mɔd\. It ranks #585 in French word frequency. Often confused with mon and moi.

Key facts for mode
PropertyValue
Headwordmode
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mɔd\
Letters4
Frequency rank#585
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mode in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mode is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɔd\. Corpus data places it at rank #585 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mode, with forms such as "mdoe", "mmode", and "modde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mon", "moi", "mot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 mode, spelled M-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manière de voir ou d’agir ; fantaisie.
  2. 2
    Façon, manière, habitude collective, us ou coutume.
  3. 3
    Usage adopté pour un temps comme une norme par une collectivité.
  4. 4
    Usage plus ou moins passager et plus ou moins adopté par mimétisme ou par pression sociale en matière d’apparence, et spécialement d’habillement.
  5. 5
    Les ajustements, les parures à la mode pour l’habillement des femmes, et particulièrement à leurs chapeaux.
  6. 6
    Dans la dentelle au point d’Alençon, dessin à l’intérieur des fleurs et des ornements à jour.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mdoe,mmode,modde,moed,omde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mode

Misspelling Variants of "mode"

mdoe4mmode5modde5moed4omde4
Misspelling Variants of "mode"

Frequency rank: #585 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mode"?
"mode" is spelled M-O-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔd\.
What does "mode" mean?
As a noun, "mode" means: Manière de voir ou d’agir ; fantaisie.
What words are commonly confused with "mode"?
"mode" is commonly confused with "mon", "moi", "mot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mode"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mode" is \mɔd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mode" come from?
"mode" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.