mythe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,586
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
mythe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récit fabuleux d'origine immémoriale contenant un sens allégorique fondateur d'une communauté humaine et de son environnement. Pronounced \mit\. It ranks #5,586 in French word frequency. Often confused with mytho and mythes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mythe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mythe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mit\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,586 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mythe, with forms such as "mmythe", "mtyhe", and "myhte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "mytho", "mythes", "math", 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 mythe, spelled M-Y-T-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récit fabuleux d'origine immémoriale contenant un sens allégorique fondateur d'une communauté humaine et de son environnement.
- 2Construction intellectuelle qui permet la cohésion d'un groupe humain ou son action.
- 3Chose dont on entend parler mais qu’on ne voit jamais.
- 4Personne connue et admirée de tout le monde grâce à son prestige.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmythe,mtyhe,myhte,myteh,mythhe,mytthe,myythe,ymthe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mythe
Misspelling Variants of "mythe"
Frequency rank: #5,586 in French
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