mythomanie
\mi.tɔ.ma.ni\
The verdict
“mythomanie” is uncommon French (frequency #91,965 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,965
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recours systématique aux mythes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mythomanie · mythomanie · French
mythomanie · rank #91,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,965
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mustela
Nearest frequency peer: mustela (-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 « mythomanie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multination…
multinationaux
8,038 corpus weight
- mustela
mustela
8,037 corpus weight
- mythomanie
mythomanie
8,036 corpus weight
- Málaga
Málaga
8,035 corpus weight
- mélodrames
mélodrames
8,034 corpus weight
- méningites
méningites
8,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mythomanie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mythomanie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.tɔ.ma.ni\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mythomanie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mythomanie is uncommon French at frequency #91,965 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mi.tɔ.ma.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mythomanie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mythomanie, spelled M-Y-T-H-O-M-A-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Recours systématique aux mythes.
- 2Tendance pathologique psychique, plus ou moins volontaire et consciente, au mensonge.
- 3Fabulation, fait d’inventer et de raconter un mensonge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mythomanie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une seule exception à la mythomanie, exception caractéristique : parce qu’elle fut durable et profonde, se remarque dans l’histoire de l’art : — chez les Néerlandais. Le génie germanique, en opposition au vieux génie romain, ne s’est jamais affolé de traditions qui lui sont étrangères. La race du Nord n’est point porté à dissimuler l’homme sous le dieu et…
La mythomanie — Les patriarches antédiluviens nommés par la Genèse sont-ils des mythes. […] La mythomanie est une véritable maladie de notre époque et bien des savants qu’on croit sérieux et graves n’ont pas échappé à la contagion.
Synonyms
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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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