mygale
\mi.ɡal\
The verdict
“mygale” is uncommon French (frequency #89,950 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,950
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Araignée des régions chaudes du sous-ordre des mygalomorphes, du groupe des orthognathes, dont la morsure peut être mortelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mygale · mygale · French
mygale · rank #89,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,950
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH munk
Nearest frequency peer: munk (-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 « mygale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mouchetée
mouchetée
10,054 corpus weight
- munk
munk
10,052 corpus weight
- mygale
mygale
10,051 corpus weight
- mânes
mânes
10,050 corpus weight
- Mégare
Mégare
10,048 corpus weight
- Méjean
Méjean
10,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mygale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mygale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mygale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mygale is uncommon French at frequency #89,950 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ɡal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Araignée des régions chaudes du sous-ordre des mygalomorphes, du groupe des orthognathes, dont la morsure peut être mortelle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mygale, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mygale, spelled M-Y-G-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Araignée des régions chaudes du sous-ordre des mygalomorphes, du groupe des orthognathes, dont la morsure peut être mortelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mygale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette trouille ! Sur le coup, j’ai cru qu'il avait aperçu un truc chaudard. Une mygale, un boa, un caïman.
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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