Mut
\muːt\
The verdict
“Mut” is uncommon French (frequency #85,045 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,045
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mut · Mut · French
Mut · rank #85,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,045
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH musquée
Nearest frequency peer: musquée (-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 « Mut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mousseau
mousseau
14,961 corpus weight
- muent
muent
14,959 corpus weight
- musquée
musquée
14,957 corpus weight
- Mut
Mut
14,956 corpus weight
- muée
muée
14,955 corpus weight
- Nahum
Nahum
14,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \muːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mut is uncommon French at frequency #85,045 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \muːt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mut, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mut, spelled M-U-T.
Definition
- 1Courage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er bewies seinen Mut, indem er über die gefährliche Brücke ging.
Detlef zeigte dem Arzt seine Wunde am Hinterkopf, aus der das Blut tropfte. Der Arzt verband die Wunde und schmunzelte: Soll ich euren Mut bewundern oder euch für euren Leichtsinn auslachen?
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Antonyms
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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