macadamia
\ma.ka.da.mja\
The verdict
“macadamia” is uncommon French (frequency #92,956 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,956
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes originaires de l’hémisphère Sud qui comprend plusieurs espèces d’arbres aux feuilles coriaces persistantes dont le noyer du Queensland qui donne les noix de macadamia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macadamia · macadamia · French
macadamia · rank #92,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maaloula
Nearest frequency peer: Maaloula (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « macadamia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luxuriantes
luxuriantes
7,050 corpus weight
- Lécuyer
Lécuyer
7,049 corpus weight
- Maaloula
Maaloula
7,046 corpus weight
- macadamia
macadamia
7,045 corpus weight
- macareux
macareux
7,044 corpus weight
- madina
madina
7,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « macadamia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macadamia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ka.da.mja\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « macadamia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
macadamia is uncommon French at frequency #92,956 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ka.da.mja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de plantes originaires de l’hémisphère Sud qui comprend plusieurs espèces d’arbres aux feuilles coriaces persistantes dont le noyer du Queensland qui donne les noix de macadamia.".
macadamia has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is macadamia, spelled M-A-C-A-D-A-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes originaires de l’hémisphère Sud qui comprend plusieurs espèces d’arbres aux feuilles coriaces persistantes dont le noyer du Queensland qui donne les noix de macadamia.
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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