MTA
\ɛm.te.a\
The verdict
“MTA” is uncommon French (frequency #85,951 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,951
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Logiciel de transmission d'un courrier électronique, qui le reçoit en SMTP pour le confier à un MDA.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mta · MTA · French
MTA · rank #85,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,951
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH muletier
Nearest frequency peer: muletier (+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 « MTA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mouillant
mouillant
14,053 corpus weight
- mout
mout
14,052 corpus weight
- MTA
MTA
14,050 corpus weight
- muletier
muletier
14,049 corpus weight
- méchoui
méchoui
14,047 corpus weight
- médusés
médusés
14,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MTA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MTA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛm.te.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MTA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MTA is uncommon French at frequency #85,951 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛm.te.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Logiciel de transmission d'un courrier électronique, qui le reçoit en SMTP pour le confier à un MDA.".
MTA doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 MTA, spelled M-T-A.
Definition
- 1Logiciel de transmission d'un courrier électronique, qui le reçoit en SMTP pour le confier à un MDA.
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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