mutique
\my.tik\
The verdict
“mutique” is uncommon French (frequency #95,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne une partie anatomique chez les arthropodes qui n’a ni pointe, ni épine, ni dent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mutique · mutique · French
mutique · rank #95,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,086
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH muqueux
Nearest frequency peer: muqueux (-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 « mutique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muletiers
muletiers
4,918 corpus weight
- multicultur…
multiculturelles
4,917 corpus weight
- muqueux
muqueux
4,916 corpus weight
- mutique
mutique
4,915 corpus weight
- Mykola
Mykola
4,914 corpus weight
- myocardique
myocardique
4,913 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mutique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.tik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mutique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mutique is uncommon French at frequency #95,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \my.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mutique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mutique, spelled M-U-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Désigne une partie anatomique chez les arthropodes qui n’a ni pointe, ni épine, ni dent.
- 2Qui ne parle plus (par choix ou par incapacité).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’étudiant, demeuré mutique durant ses six jours de garde à vue, n’a rien laissé filtrer d’éventuelles complicités.
Malgré son amour pour la reine mutique, le roi en vint à être lassé.
Synonyms
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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