mustela
The verdict
“mustela” is uncommon French (frequency #91,964 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,964
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Belette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mustela · mustela · French
mustela · rank #91,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,964
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH multinationaux
Nearest frequency peer: multinationaux (-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 « mustela »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moureaux
moureaux
8,040 corpus weight
- multination…
multinationaux
8,038 corpus weight
- mustela
mustela
8,037 corpus weight
- mythomanie
mythomanie
8,036 corpus weight
- Málaga
Málaga
8,035 corpus weight
- mélodrames
mélodrames
8,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mustela » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mustela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mustela » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mustela is uncommon French at frequency #91,964 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mustela has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mustela, spelled M-U-S-T-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Belette.
- 2Poisson inconnu, peut-être la lotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mustela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
quaeque per Illyricum, per stagna binominis Histri spumarum indiciis caperis, mustela, natantum, in nostrum subvecta fretum, ne lata Mosellae flumina tam celebri defrudarentur alumno.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).