motherfucker
\ˈmʌð.ɚ.ˌfʌk.ɚ\
The verdict
“motherfucker” is uncommon French (frequency #81,357 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,357
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insulte comparable au fils de pute français ou plus récemment à nique ta mère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motherfucker · motherfucker · French
motherfucker · rank #81,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,357
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moscato
Nearest frequency peer: Moscato (-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 « motherfucker »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Montbazon
Montbazon
18,648 corpus weight
- Moscato
Moscato
18,645 corpus weight
- motherfucker
motherfucker
18,644 corpus weight
- mouillages
mouillages
18,643 corpus weight
- mourier
mourier
18,642 corpus weight
- mui
mui
18,640 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motherfucker » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motherfucker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmʌð.ɚ.ˌfʌk.ɚ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motherfucker » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motherfucker is uncommon French at frequency #81,357 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmʌð.ɚ.ˌfʌk.ɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for motherfucker, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is motherfucker, spelled M-O-T-H-E-R-F-U-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Insulte comparable au fils de pute français ou plus récemment à nique ta mère.
- 2Exclamation marquant la surprise
- 3Type, mec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motherfucker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shut up, motherfucker!
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).