mulâtre
\my.lɑtʁ\
The verdict
“mulâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #70,866 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,866
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Métis né d’un parent noir et d’un parent blanc ou de deux parents mulâtres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mulatre · mulâtre · French
mulâtre · rank #70,866 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,866
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH MPT
Nearest frequency peer: MPT (-2 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 « mulâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Morgenstern
Morgenstern
29,139 corpus weight
- mouarf
mouarf
29,138 corpus weight
- MPT
MPT
29,137 corpus weight
- mulâtre
mulâtre
29,135 corpus weight
- myopes
myopes
29,133 corpus weight
- méconnaissa…
méconnaissables
29,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mulâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.lɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mulâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mulâtre is uncommon French at frequency #70,866 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.lɑtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mulâtre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mulâtre, spelled M-U-L-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Métis né d’un parent noir et d’un parent blanc ou de deux parents mulâtres.
- 2Afrodescendant liotrique à la peau jaune ou café au lait et aux traits europoïdes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mulâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous n’avons qu’une belle mulâtre, une jolie femme, bien faite; mais elle est stérile.»
Si Dris Ben-Aâlem, le caïd el-mechouar, gouverneur de la cour, commandant de la garde chérifienne, porte-parole du Sultan, était un mulâtre gigantesque à voix stentorienne.
Synonyms
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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