macarena
\ma.ka.ʁɛ.na\
The verdict
“macarena” is uncommon French (frequency #60,180 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,180
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse inventée pour la chanson Macarena de Los del Río.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macarena · macarena · French
macarena · rank #60,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,180
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH MacGyver
Nearest frequency peer: MacGyver (+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 « macarena »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- légua
légua
39,825 corpus weight
- létal
létal
39,823 corpus weight
- macarena
macarena
39,821 corpus weight
- MacGyver
MacGyver
39,820 corpus weight
- machinisme
machinisme
39,819 corpus weight
- mada
mada
39,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « macarena » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macarena |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ka.ʁɛ.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « macarena » en français
Rare enough to double-check
macarena is uncommon French at frequency #60,180 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ka.ʁɛ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danse inventée pour la chanson Macarena de Los del Río.".
macarena has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is macarena, spelled M-A-C-A-R-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Danse inventée pour la chanson Macarena de Los del Río.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how macarena appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, quand l’arbitre fait la macarena avec les mains au basket, c’est qu’il y a marché.
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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