modou
\mo.du\
The verdict
“modou” is uncommon French (frequency #81,347 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,347
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - revendeur ambulant d'origine sénégalaise vendant aussi bien des souvenirs à la sauvette au pied de la tour Eiffel que de la drogue dans les bas quartiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modou · modou · French
modou · rank #81,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mocheté
Nearest frequency peer: mocheté (-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 « modou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi
18,657 corpus weight
- moch
moch
18,656 corpus weight
- mocheté
mocheté
18,655 corpus weight
- modou
modou
18,654 corpus weight
- molinaro
molinaro
18,653 corpus weight
- molosses
molosses
18,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo.du\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modou is uncommon French at frequency #81,347 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo.du\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "revendeur ambulant d'origine sénégalaise vendant aussi bien des souvenirs à la sauvette au pied de la tour Eiffel que de la drogue dans les bas quartiers.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for modou, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is modou, spelled M-O-D-O-U.
Definition
- 1revendeur ambulant d'origine sénégalaise vendant aussi bien des souvenirs à la sauvette au pied de la tour Eiffel que de la drogue dans les bas quartiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le terme "modous" – qui peut se traduire par "petit négociant" en wolof, la langue la plus parlée au Sénégal – désigne les vendeurs de crack, originaires d’Afrique de l’Ouest, qui opèrent dans le métro ou dans la rue.
Lorsqu’un modou apparaît, c’est la ruée, tout le monde se jette sur lui.
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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