muti
\mu.ti\
The verdict
“muti” is uncommon French (frequency #90,958 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,958
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En Afrique du Sud, médecine traditionnelle ou sorcellerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-muti · muti · French
muti · rank #90,958 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,958
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mummy
Nearest frequency peer: mummy (-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 « muti »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mozambicain
mozambicain
9,047 corpus weight
- mulots
mulots
9,045 corpus weight
- mummy
mummy
9,044 corpus weight
- muti
muti
9,043 corpus weight
- mutt
mutt
9,042 corpus weight
- mycologie
mycologie
9,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « muti » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muti |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.ti\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « muti » en français
Rare enough to double-check
muti is uncommon French at frequency #90,958 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for muti in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is muti, spelled M-U-T-I.
Definition
- 1En Afrique du Sud, médecine traditionnelle ou sorcellerie.
- 2Herbes, poudres, potions et fétiches de la médecine traditionnelle ou de la sorcellerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour influer sur les matchs, les sangomas étalent du muti sur les murs des vestiaires, font uriner les joueurs dans des sacs remplis de la terre du terrain lors des matchs à l’extérieur ou enterrent des morceaux d’animaux sur le terrain à domicile.
Sur un banc en bois devant le magasin de Ngonyama Mvubu, des hommes et femmes âgés attendent le muti, médicament africain aux fortes vertus guérisseuses.
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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