Mostar
\mos.taʁ\
The verdict
“Mostar” is uncommon French (frequency #77,724 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,724
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Bosnie-Herzégovine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mostar · Mostar · French
Mostar · rank #77,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,724
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mortemart
Nearest frequency peer: Mortemart (-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 « Mostar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Morency
Morency
22,279 corpus weight
- Mortemart
Mortemart
22,278 corpus weight
- Mostar
Mostar
22,277 corpus weight
- motto
motto
22,276 corpus weight
- Mouly
Mouly
22,275 corpus weight
- muc
muc
22,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mostar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mostar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mos.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mostar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mostar is uncommon French at frequency #77,724 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mos.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Bosnie-Herzégovine.".
Mostar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Mostar, spelled M-O-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Ville de Bosnie-Herzégovine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mostar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’eus pourtant une rechute à Mostar, accompagnée de forte fièvre, fus soigné dans un hôpital de Sarajevo.
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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