mystère

/\mi.stɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,475

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

mystère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qu’une religion a de plus caché, ce qui n’est connu que des initiés. Pronounced \mi.stɛʁ\. It ranks #3,475 in French word frequency. Often confused with mystery and mystères.

Key facts for mystère
PropertyValue
Headwordmystère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.stɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,475
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mystère in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mystère is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mi.stɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,475 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mystère, with forms such as "mmystère", "msytère", and "mysstère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "mystery", "mystères", "master", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mystère, spelled M-Y-S-T-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qu’une religion a de plus caché, ce qui n’est connu que des initiés.
  2. 2
    Vérité de foi contenue dans la révélation et qui, sans contredire la raison, la dépasse.
  3. 3
    Ce qu’il y a de caché, de secret, d'inconnaissable dans les phénomènes de la nature ; ce qui est inexplicable par la raison humaine.
  4. 4
    Ce qu’il y a de caché, de secret dans les affaires humaines.
  5. 5
    Les soins, les précautions que l’on prend pour n’être pas entendu, pour n’être pas observé.
  6. 6
    Composante du rosaire.
  7. 7
    Nom que l’on donnait, au Moyen Âge, à certaines pièces de théâtre, d’inspiration religieuse, dont le sujet était tiré des Écritures ou de la vie des saints.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmystère,msytère,mysstère,mystere,mystrèe,mysttère,mystèer,mystèrre,mysètre,mytsère,myystère,ymstère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mystère

Misspelling Variants of "mystère"

mmystère8msytère7mysstère8mystere7mystrèe7mysttère8mystèer7mystèrre8
Misspelling Variants of "mystère"

Frequency rank: #3,475 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mystère"?
"mystère" is spelled M-Y-S-T-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.stɛʁ\.
What does "mystère" mean?
As a noun, "mystère" means: Ce qu’une religion a de plus caché, ce qui n’est connu que des initiés.
What words are commonly confused with "mystère"?
"mystère" is commonly confused with "mystery", "mystères", "master". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mystère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mystère" is \mi.stɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mystère" come from?
"mystère" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.