mutante
\my.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“mutante” is uncommon French (frequency #52,851 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,851
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage fictif représentant une femme qui a subi une mutation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mutante · mutante · French
mutante · rank #52,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,851
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH murmura
Nearest frequency peer: murmura (-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 « mutante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moscovites
moscovites
47,154 corpus weight
- multifoncti…
multifonctions
47,152 corpus weight
- murmura
murmura
47,151 corpus weight
- mutante
mutante
47,150 corpus weight
- mutilée
mutilée
47,149 corpus weight
- myth
myth
47,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mutante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mutante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mutante is uncommon French at frequency #52,851 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage fictif représentant une femme qui a subi une mutation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mutante, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mutante, spelled M-U-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage fictif représentant une femme qui a subi une mutation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mutante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une mutante envoyée du cyberespace pour annoncer l’apocalypse.
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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