mul
\ˈmyːl\
The verdict
“mul” is uncommon French (frequency #82,254 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,254
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mulet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mul · mul · French
mul · rank #82,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,254
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mour
Nearest frequency peer: mour (-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 « mul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Morisset
Morisset
17,750 corpus weight
- mour
mour
17,748 corpus weight
- mul
mul
17,747 corpus weight
- multiplière…
multiplièrent
17,746 corpus weight
- myéline
myéline
17,745 corpus weight
- mécontenter
mécontenter
17,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmyːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #82,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mul is uncommon French at frequency #82,254 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmyːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mulet.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mul in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mul, spelled M-U-L.
Definition
- 1Mulet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
E sujidi nemeto a oa ar mul Alejandro ha daou gi-bleiz o mouezhioù braouacʼhus.
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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