mutin
\my.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“mutin” is uncommon French (frequency #69,252 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,252
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espiègle, badin, moqueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mutin · mutin · French
mutin · rank #69,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,252
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH murmurent
Nearest frequency peer: murmurent (-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 « mutin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mufle
mufle
30,752 corpus weight
- murmurent
murmurent
30,750 corpus weight
- mutin
mutin
30,749 corpus weight
- Mykonos
Mykonos
30,748 corpus weight
- myosotis
myosotis
30,747 corpus weight
- métamorphiq…
métamorphiques
30,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mutin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mutin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mutin is uncommon French at frequency #69,252 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \my.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mutin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mutin, spelled M-U-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Espiègle, badin, moqueur.
- 2Qui est séditieux, révolté, qui participe à une mutinerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie et la jeunesse étalaient leurs trésors sur ce visage mutin.
La seconde personne était une jeune fille ou plutôt une enfant de quinze ans, à la mine mutine et éveillée, au nez retroussé et au regard hardi.
This word in other languages
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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