multilatéral
\myl.ti.la.te.ʁal\
The verdict
“multilatéral” is uncommon French (frequency #54,743 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,743
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a plusieurs côtés ou points de vue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-multilateral · multilatéral · French
multilatéral · rank #54,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,743
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH muraux
Nearest frequency peer: muraux (+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 « multilatéral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moria
moria
45,261 corpus weight
- moulure
moulure
45,260 corpus weight
- multilatéral
multilatéral
45,258 corpus weight
- muraux
muraux
45,257 corpus weight
- Mythos
Mythos
45,256 corpus weight
- médiatiquem…
médiatiquement
45,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « multilatéral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | multilatéral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \myl.ti.la.te.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « multilatéral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
multilatéral is uncommon French at frequency #54,743 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \myl.ti.la.te.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for multilatéral, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is multilatéral, spelled M-U-L-T-I-L-A-T-É-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a plusieurs côtés ou points de vue.
- 2Qui comporte de nombreuses parties.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how multilatéral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un accord multilatéral sur les gaz à effet de serre.
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Antonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).