mollah
\mɔl.la\
The verdict
“mollah” is uncommon French (frequency #57,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,427
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre donné aux prêtres musulmans et à toute personne exerçant des fonctions juridiques et religieuses dans le monde musulman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mollah · mollah · French
mollah · rank #57,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,427
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH modifiera
Nearest frequency peer: modifiera (-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 « mollah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mitraillett…
mitraillettes
42,577 corpus weight
- modifia
modifia
42,576 corpus weight
- modifiera
modifiera
42,575 corpus weight
- mollah
mollah
42,574 corpus weight
- monoparenta…
monoparentale
42,573 corpus weight
- months
months
42,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mollah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mollah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔl.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mollah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mollah is uncommon French at frequency #57,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔl.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre donné aux prêtres musulmans et à toute personne exerçant des fonctions juridiques et religieuses dans le monde musulman.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mollah in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mollah, spelled M-O-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Titre donné aux prêtres musulmans et à toute personne exerçant des fonctions juridiques et religieuses dans le monde musulman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mollah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car c’est dans cette atmosphère qu’intervint le plus banal des événements : un bal masqué chez un haut fonctionnaire belge, où M. Naus eut l’idée de se rendre déguisé en mollah.
Pourquoi avez-vous changé de forme si vous êtes celui que vous clamez être ? questionne un mollah.
This word in other languages
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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