macaron
/mækəˈɹɒn/
"macaron" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“macaron” is uncommon English (frequency #83,476 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,476
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of various confections made with almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-macaron · macaron · English
macaron · rank #83,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,476
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Lynwood
Nearest frequency peer: Lynwood (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “macaron”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- loquacious
loquacious
16,533 corpus weight
- Lothario
Lothario
16,532 corpus weight
- LPR
LPR
16,529 corpus weight
- Lynwood
Lynwood
16,526 corpus weight
- macaron
macaron
16,525 corpus weight
- malu
malu
16,516 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “macaron” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macaron |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mækəˈɹɒn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “macaron” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
macaron is uncommon English at frequency #83,476 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mækəˈɹɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of various confections made with almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.".
macaron has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French macaron. Doublet of macaroon. The correct English form is macaron, spelled M-A-C-A-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Any of various confections made with almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.
Etymology
Borrowed from French macaron. Doublet of macaroon.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.