macchabée
\ma.ka.be\
The verdict
“macchabée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps humain sans vie, mort, cadavre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macchabee · macchabée · French
macchabée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macchabée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ka.be\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
macchabée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ka.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Corps humain sans vie, mort, cadavre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for macchabée in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is macchabée, spelled M-A-C-C-H-A-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Corps humain sans vie, mort, cadavre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macchabée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La conversation, je ne sais comment, est allée de Palerme et de ses catacombes à la morgue et à ses noyés, et Maupassant, qui dîne avec moi, parle longuement de ses repêchages en Seine et de son goût pour les macchabées du fleuve parisien, à cause des laideurs originales qu’ils revêtent.
Ce dernier, bien que spécialisé dans le travail manuel, avait gambergé très vite sachant qu’Alvaro ne plaisantait jamais quand il sortait son soufflant, et qu’un macchabée, même coincé dans un vasistas, ça ne cause plus bezef…
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