maquette
/mæˈkɛt/noun, verb
maquette is a noun meaning “A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of maquette is maquettes.
What does maquette mean?
noun
- 1
A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
verb
- 1
rareTo prepare a maquette (of).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce maquette?
- /mæˈkɛt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of maquette
- maquettes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- maquetting participle, present
- maquetted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is maquette?
Maquette appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Maquette in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a preliminary model or sketch:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Makette, Vorführmodell, Bozzetto |
| Spanish | maqueta |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does maquette come from?
Borrowed from French maquette.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).