MP4
\ɛm.pe.katʁ\
The verdict
“MP4” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,242) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,242
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Norme d’encodage multimédia (audio ou vidéo) sous forme numérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mp4 · MP4 · French
MP4 · rank #49,242 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,242
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Munro
Nearest frequency peer: Munro (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « MP4 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- morfler
morfler
50,762 corpus weight
- motocyclette
motocyclette
50,761 corpus weight
- MP4
MP4
50,759 corpus weight
- Munro
Munro
50,758 corpus weight
- musicalité
musicalité
50,757 corpus weight
- mutualistes
mutualistes
50,756 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « MP4 » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MP4 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.pe.katʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « MP4 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MP4 is neighbouring look-alikes ("MR", "my", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \ɛm.pe.katʁ\. Frequency #49,242 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Norme d’encodage multimédia (audio ou vidéo) sous forme numérique.".
MP4 has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "my", "ms", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is MP4, spelled M-P-4.
Definition
- 1Norme d’encodage multimédia (audio ou vidéo) sous forme numérique.
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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