muletier
\my.lə.tje\
The verdict
“muletier” is uncommon French (frequency #85,952 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,952
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux mulets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muletier · muletier · French
muletier · rank #85,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,952
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH MTA
Nearest frequency peer: MTA (-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 « muletier »
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 « muletier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muletier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.lə.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « muletier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
muletier is uncommon French at frequency #85,952 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \my.lə.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux mulets.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for muletier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is muletier, spelled M-U-L-E-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux mulets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muletier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'ailleurs les militaires on ne les voit guère dans la montagne, dans le bled pour l'excellente raison que les troupes n'ont pas de train muletier.
En 1999, lors de mon premier passage à Shangri-la, anciennement Zhongdian, un ami bouddha vivant m’avait parlé de ce territoire caché là-haut, en allant vers les vallées entre Muli et Litang ; un pays perdu situé dans le Kham tibétain, dans la province du Sichuan. Là-bas, me disait-il, les rivières laissent couler de l’or, où nature est synonyme de sauvag…
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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