motorcycle
\ˈməʊ.təˌsaɪ.kəl\
The verdict
“motorcycle” is uncommon French (frequency #86,942 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,942
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moto, vélomoteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motorcycle · motorcycle · French
motorcycle · rank #86,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,942
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moscovie
Nearest frequency peer: Moscovie (-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 « motorcycle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- morro
morro
13,061 corpus weight
- Moscovie
Moscovie
13,060 corpus weight
- motorcycle
motorcycle
13,059 corpus weight
- mousquetons
mousquetons
13,058 corpus weight
- multicoques
multicoques
13,057 corpus weight
- multiformes
multiformes
13,056 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motorcycle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motorcycle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈməʊ.təˌsaɪ.kəl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motorcycle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motorcycle is uncommon French at frequency #86,942 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈməʊ.təˌsaɪ.kəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Moto, vélomoteur.".
motorcycle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is motorcycle, spelled M-O-T-O-R-C-Y-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Moto, vélomoteur.
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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