macabre
\ma.kɑbʁ\
The verdict
“macabre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,273
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une « danse » consistant en une suite d’images qui représentent la mort entraînant avec elle, en dansant, des personnages de toutes les conditions → voir danse macabre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macabre · macabre · French
macabre · rank #23,273 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,273
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légiste
Nearest frequency peer: légiste (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “macabre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lundis
lundis
76,731 corpus weight
- législations
législations
76,730 corpus weight
- légiste
légiste
76,729 corpus weight
- macabre
macabre
76,728 corpus weight
- manquaient
manquaient
76,726 corpus weight
- maquiller
maquiller
76,725 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “macabre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | macabre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.kɑbʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “macabre” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around macabre (IPA \ma.kɑbʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,273 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for macabre, with forms such as "amcabre", "maacbre", and "macabbre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "marbre", "macaire", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is macabre, spelled M-A-C-A-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une « danse » consistant en une suite d’images qui représentent la mort entraînant avec elle, en dansant, des personnages de toutes les conditions → voir danse macabre.
- 2Qui est lugubre, funèbre, sinistre.
- 3Lourd à porter. ^([3])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macabre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Récit macabre.
Plaisanterie macabre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amcabre
- maacbre
- macabbre
- macaber
- macabrre
- macarbe
- macbare
- maccabre
- mcaabre
- mmacabre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of macabre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "macabre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "macabre". Here's where to go from here.
- "macabre" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "marbre". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #23,273 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
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.