macaques
\ma.kak\
The verdict
“macaques” is uncommon French (frequency #54,084 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,084
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de macaque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macaques · macaques · French
macaques · rank #54,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,084
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macabres
Nearest frequency peer: macabres (-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 « macaques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lussier
Lussier
45,920 corpus weight
- lévitique
lévitique
45,919 corpus weight
- macabres
macabres
45,918 corpus weight
- macaques
macaques
45,917 corpus weight
- malicieuse
malicieuse
45,915 corpus weight
- mangrove
mangrove
45,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « macaques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macaques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.kak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « macaques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
macaques is uncommon French at frequency #54,084 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.kak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de macaque.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for macaques in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 macaques, spelled M-A-C-A-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de macaque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how macaques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces « hommes-singes » auront pour mission d’imiter les cris des singes langur, ennemis naturels des macaques rhésus qui ont envahi la capitale, et ainsi les empêcher de perturber le sommet du G20 qui va s’y tenir d’ici quelques jours.
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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