modena
The verdict
“modena” is uncommon French (frequency #91,947 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,947
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modène anglais, race de pigeons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modena · modena · French
modena · rank #91,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,947
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modiques
Nearest frequency peer: modiques (+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 « modena »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mistrals
mistrals
8,058 corpus weight
- modena
modena
8,054 corpus weight
- modiques
modiques
8,053 corpus weight
- moises
moises
8,052 corpus weight
- molène
molène
8,051 corpus weight
- monoclonaux
monoclonaux
8,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modena » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modena |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modena » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modena is uncommon French at frequency #91,947 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Modène anglais, race de pigeons.".
No misspelling variants are generated for modena in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is modena, spelled M-O-D-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Modène anglais, race de pigeons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how modena appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Modena is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding.
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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