multiforme
\myl.ti.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“multiforme” is uncommon French (frequency #54,114 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,114
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a plusieurs formes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-multiforme · multiforme · French
multiforme · rank #54,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,114
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méconnaître
Nearest frequency peer: méconnaître (+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 « multiforme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- momentanée
momentanée
45,891 corpus weight
- monteurs
monteurs
45,890 corpus weight
- multiforme
multiforme
45,887 corpus weight
- méconnaître
méconnaître
45,886 corpus weight
- médiatisées
médiatisées
45,885 corpus weight
- mélodieux
mélodieux
45,884 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « multiforme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | multiforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \myl.ti.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « multiforme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
multiforme is uncommon French at frequency #54,114 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \myl.ti.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
multiforme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is multiforme, spelled M-U-L-T-I-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a plusieurs formes.
- 2Qui a plusieurs formes ou figures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how multiforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Emporté par le mouvement multiforme de la lutte, il a tendance à se fixer sur des tâches locales, poursuivies avec ardeur mais presque toujours solennisées.
Or, en fait, le monde est creusé de failles plus profondes, plus larges et plus nombreuses qu’on ne le croit au premier regard, et cet éclatement profond et multiforme est pour nous, sous des formes multiples, un risque de mort.
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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