motet
\mɔ.tɛ\
The verdict
“motet” is uncommon French (frequency #75,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Psaume ou autres paroles latines mises en musique pour être chantées à l’église et qui ne font pas partie de l’office divin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motet · motet · French
motet · rank #75,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,921
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mosellan
Nearest frequency peer: mosellan (-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 « motet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- morena
morena
24,083 corpus weight
- mortis
mortis
24,082 corpus weight
- mosellan
mosellan
24,081 corpus weight
- motet
motet
24,080 corpus weight
- motivera
motivera
24,079 corpus weight
- moucheté
moucheté
24,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motet is uncommon French at frequency #75,921 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Psaume ou autres paroles latines mises en musique pour être chantées à l’église et qui ne font pas partie de l’office divin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for motet, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 motet, spelled M-O-T-E-T.
Definition
- 1Psaume ou autres paroles latines mises en musique pour être chantées à l’église et qui ne font pas partie de l’office divin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était passionné de musique; on conserve de lui des chansons émues et mélodieuses, des motets bien construits.
Toute la nuit, couché une dernière fois sur son lit dans sa cellule de Saint-Cosme, Zénon se joua et se rejoua un certain motet de Roland de Lassus, mêlé à ses projets d'avenir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).