multinational
\myl.ti.na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“multinational” is uncommon French (frequency #66,929 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,929
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à plus de deux nations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-multinational · multinational · French
multinational · rank #66,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,929
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH moyenâgeux
Nearest frequency peer: moyenâgeux (-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 « multinational »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mouillez
mouillez
33,075 corpus weight
- mox
mox
33,074 corpus weight
- moyenâgeux
moyenâgeux
33,073 corpus weight
- multination…
multinational
33,072 corpus weight
- mutée
mutée
33,071 corpus weight
- mélangeait
mélangeait
33,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « multinational » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | multinational |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \myl.ti.na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #66,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « multinational » en français
Rare enough to double-check
multinational is uncommon French at frequency #66,929 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \myl.ti.na.sjɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à plus de deux nations.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for multinational, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 multinational, spelled M-U-L-T-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à plus de deux nations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how multinational appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La victoire de l’Entente envers les Pouvoirs Centraux représenta la dernière phase dans la désintégration des empires multinationaux européens et euro-asiatiques (Autriche-Hongrie, Empire Ottoman, Empire Tsariste) et aboutit à des traités de paix qui changèrent dramatiquement les frontières de l’Europe centrale et Orientale.
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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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