mulâtres
\my.latʁ\
The verdict
“mulâtres” is uncommon French (frequency #77,730 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,730
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mulâtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mulatres · mulâtres · French
mulâtres · rank #77,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,730
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH multidimensio…
Nearest frequency peer: multidimensionnelle (-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 « mulâtres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muc
muc
22,274 corpus weight
- multidimens…
multidimensionnelle
22,272 corpus weight
- mulâtres
mulâtres
22,271 corpus weight
- MZ
MZ
22,270 corpus weight
- Médor
Médor
22,269 corpus weight
- méfions
méfions
22,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mulâtres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mulâtres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.latʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mulâtres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mulâtres is uncommon French at frequency #77,730 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.latʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mulâtre.".
mulâtres doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mulâtres, spelled M-U-L-Â-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mulâtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mulâtres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tensions éclataient entre les dirigeants noirs et les mulâtres qui réclamaient une certaine propriété légitime sur les terres jadis occupées par les colons français.
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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