mac
\mak\
The verdict
“mac” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,470) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,470
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proxénète, maquereau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mac · mac · French
mac · rank #3,470 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,470
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH liée
Nearest frequency peer: liée (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mac »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- leçon
leçon
96,534 corpus weight
- limiter
limiter
96,533 corpus weight
- liée
liée
96,532 corpus weight
- mac
mac
96,531 corpus weight
- majeure
majeure
96,530 corpus weight
- Maria
Maria
96,529 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mac » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mak\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mac »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mac is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mak\. Frequency #3,470 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Proxénète, maquereau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mac in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mac, spelled M-A-C.
Definition
- 1Proxénète, maquereau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a conservé pour moi cette admiration que les filles soumises ont pour leur Jules, l’admiration de la tapineuse pour son mac.
Un seul d’entre eux a essayé de se donner un genre, en portant continuellement des lunettes noires, les cheveux bien gominés. Il ressemble à un mac marseillais des années 1950.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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