modulo
\mɔ.dy.lo\
The verdict
“modulo” is uncommon French (frequency #54,734 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,734
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonction mathématique donnant le reste de la division d’une variable par un nombre donné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modulo · modulo · French
modulo · rank #54,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,734
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mixed
Nearest frequency peer: mixed (-2 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 « modulo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Midas
Midas
45,271 corpus weight
- minage
minage
45,270 corpus weight
- mixed
mixed
45,269 corpus weight
- modulo
modulo
45,267 corpus weight
- Monteil
Monteil
45,265 corpus weight
- moraine
moraine
45,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modulo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modulo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.dy.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modulo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modulo is uncommon French at frequency #54,734 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.dy.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for modulo in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 modulo, spelled M-O-D-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1Fonction mathématique donnant le reste de la division d’une variable par un nombre donné.
- 2Non prise en compte (utilisé exclusivement comme apposition pour signifier « sans prendre en compte », « en négligeant », « à [ce qui suit] près » ; voir les exemples ci-après).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modulo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le cas de la fonction partie entière floor, le résultat est négatif pour un modulo avec un entier strictement négatif (en convenant de poser a mod -n = -(a mod n), par exemple 1 mod -2 = -1). Le modulo retourné est donc du même signe que le diviseur y.
Serret en France, a ramené cette méthode à une étude de congruences […] relativement à un module qui est un polynôme premier construit sur le corps des résidus modulo P. — (Histoire générale des sciences, t.3, vol.1, 1961, page 72)
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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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