molto
\ˈmɔl.to\
The verdict
“molto” is uncommon French (frequency #71,711 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,711
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beaucoup, maint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-molto · molto · French
molto · rank #71,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,711
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH molesté
Nearest frequency peer: molesté (-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 « molto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mindanao
Mindanao
28,295 corpus weight
- minutieuses
minutieuses
28,293 corpus weight
- molesté
molesté
28,291 corpus weight
- molto
molto
28,290 corpus weight
- Mondeville
Mondeville
28,289 corpus weight
- Montmédy
Montmédy
28,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « molto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | molto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmɔl.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « molto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
molto is uncommon French at frequency #71,711 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmɔl.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beaucoup, maint.".
molto has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is molto, spelled M-O-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1Beaucoup, maint.
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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