motarde
\mɔ.taʁd\
The verdict
“motarde” is uncommon French (frequency #94,040 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,040
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motocycliste de l’armée ou de la gendarmerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motarde · motarde · French
motarde · rank #94,040 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,040
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH morra
Nearest frequency peer: morra (-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 « motarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Morini
Morini
5,964 corpus weight
- morra
morra
5,962 corpus weight
- motarde
motarde
5,961 corpus weight
- mouchet
mouchet
5,960 corpus weight
- Moudenc
Moudenc
5,959 corpus weight
- moultes
moultes
5,958 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.taʁd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motarde is uncommon French at frequency #94,040 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
motarde doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 motarde, spelled M-O-T-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Motocycliste de l’armée ou de la gendarmerie.
- 2Motocycliste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how motarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une moto descendit, chevauchée par une motarde.
Synonyms
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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