momification
\mɔ.mi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“momification” is uncommon French (frequency #95,069 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,069
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de momifier, ou état d’un cadavre momifié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-momification · momification · French
momification · rank #95,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,069
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH monetary
Nearest frequency peer: monetary (+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 « momification »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mirobolant
mirobolant
4,937 corpus weight
- modulés
modulés
4,934 corpus weight
- momification
momification
4,932 corpus weight
- monetary
monetary
4,931 corpus weight
- montier
montier
4,930 corpus weight
- Montivillie…
Montivilliers
4,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « momification » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | momification |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.mi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #95,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « momification » en français
Rare enough to double-check
momification is uncommon French at frequency #95,069 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.mi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for momification, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is momification, spelled M-O-M-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de momifier, ou état d’un cadavre momifié.
- 2Préservation naturelle ou artificielle des tissus mous d’un organisme mort, souvent par dessiccation, froid, sel ou absence de bactéries.
- 3(Sens figuré) Dessèchement, immobilisation d’une entité réelle ou abstraite, bloquée dans un état de mort ou d’absence d’évolution et de développement, comme le connaît la momie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how momification appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La momification est un procédé funéraire moins fréquent mais largement attesté.
L’Égypte a dévoilé ce week-end deux ateliers consacrés à la momification d’humains et d’animaux à Saqqarah, dans la nécropole de Memphis, la capitale de l’ancien empire des pharaons.
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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