franc-maçon
\fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“franc-maçon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la franc-maçonnerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-franc-macon · franc-maçon · French
franc-maçon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | franc-maçon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
franc-maçon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁɑ̃.ma.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la franc-maçonnerie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for franc-maçon, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is franc-maçon, spelled F-R-A-N-C---M-A-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la franc-maçonnerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how franc-maçon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Roi, ennemi de toutes les guerres, détestait les guerres de religion; ami de toutes les libertés, il laissait les consciences libres, fussent-elles jésuites ou francs-maçonnes.
[…] ; quand les cléricaux sont les plus faibles dans un pays, il ne manquent jamais de recommander des mesures de sévère réglementation pour se venger de patrons francs-maçons.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.