mygales
\mi.ɡal\
The verdict
“mygales” is uncommon French (frequency #93,014 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,014
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mygale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mygales · mygales · French
mygales · rank #93,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,014
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moutet
Nearest frequency peer: Moutet (-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 « mygales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- motilité
motilité
6,992 corpus weight
- Moussy
Moussy
6,990 corpus weight
- Moutet
Moutet
6,988 corpus weight
- mygales
mygales
6,987 corpus weight
- mésolithique
mésolithique
6,985 corpus weight
- naissons
naissons
6,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mygales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mygales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mygales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mygales is uncommon French at frequency #93,014 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.ɡal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mygale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mygales in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mygales, spelled M-Y-G-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mygale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mygales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et comme chaque larve ne reçoit qu’une proie devant assurer son développement entier, les pompiles s’attaquent aux plus grosses espèces, mygales comprises.
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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