motocycles
\mɔ.tɔ.sikl\
The verdict
“motocycles” is uncommon French (frequency #91,957 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,957
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de motocycle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motocycles · motocycles · French
motocycles · rank #91,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,957
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moris
Nearest frequency peer: moris (-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 « motocycles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- montoir
montoir
8,047 corpus weight
- Montrichard
Montrichard
8,046 corpus weight
- moris
moris
8,045 corpus weight
- motocycles
motocycles
8,044 corpus weight
- moudjahidine
moudjahidine
8,042 corpus weight
- mouline
mouline
8,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motocycles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motocycles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.tɔ.sikl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motocycles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motocycles is uncommon French at frequency #91,957 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.tɔ.sikl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de motocycle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for motocycles in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is motocycles, spelled M-O-T-O-C-Y-C-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de motocycle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how motocycles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La catégorie motocycles rassemble les motos, les motocycles légers (cylindrée inférieure à 50 cm3), les scooteurs et les cyclomoteurs.
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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